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...Scofield’s originals use familiar grooves and melodies to showcase the trio’s empathy and fire....
...Yet at well over 20 songs once you count the bonus material, Don Juan feels cluttered; yet more collaborations, with Burna Boy and J Balvin, were announced, but it’s unclear when these will drop....
...Smith adds the main melody with her vocals, a technically complex but unfussily accomplished act of singing....
...Co-founders “J” and “T” turned out to be Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, originally pals from a west London public school....
...There’s a famous photo [by Andrew J Russell] of Promontory Summit, and the golden spike being driven in.”...
...Prepared by Malcolm J Merriweather, the Summer for the City Chorus was superb....
...Maxeon Solar named Donald J Foldenauer as general manager of its billion-dollar manufacturing solar facility in New Mexico, which was announced in August. More on jobs . . ....
...“The late Steven J Ross first introduced Ralph and I in the early 1980s and we hit it off immediately. In Ralph I recognised another storyteller....
...It has a turn from reggaeton singer J Balvin. Other guests come from across the musical spectrum....
...A large troupe of beatmakers have co-produced the songs, from big names in R&B and pop such as Tricky Stewart to dance music DJs such as Honey Dijon....
...The band sessions were honed by founder and frontman Conor J O’Brien in his home studio during the long pandemic restrictions....
...Haunted by snatches of melody from the miners, he starts to write, conjuring the play up before us on an empty stage....
...A multi-tracked Mary J Blige sings up a storm on “Spinnin’”, whose music is a well-judged mix of ornate orchestration and rhythmic discipline....
...It was of a piece with their music: primary-coloured, fizzing with melody and clearly part of the Welsh psychedelic tradition that has given us Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals....
...Swing what nature gave you”, was apparently partially inspired by the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams and his book The Ape that Understood the Universe....
...Patrick J Allen River Forest, IL, US...
...Conflicting forces are at play in the music of Ohmme, the band formed in 2014 in Chicago by school friends Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham....
...The music faltered, as if momentarily transfixed by its own beauty, then an elderly gentleman in a white cap stepped forward to rescue the melody from among the guitar chords and the plunging line of the...
...Scofield gets to the essence of the lyrical theme before conjuring melodies on the fly, spurred on by a bass counterpoint that rarely resolves....
...A keyboard melody rings out, its emphatic punctuation matched by Barker’s proud exclamations....
...Rival J Sainsbury has yet to decide whether to pay out in respect of last year’s earnings....
...Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin asked fans earlier this month if he should delay Colores due to the coronavirus crisis. Justly, he chose not to....
...Rory Stewart: The former Tory leadership contender is Britain’s Cassandra, having called for an early lockdown....
...Welsh, London; VW Durham, Cumbria, England; Rowan McKittrick, London Polymath 1,062: Susan J Tzotzos, Austria Crossword 16,401: David Jeffrey, Edinburgh; Michael Capparis, New York; J Morton, Glasgow...
...The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously rejected three separate appeal cases, which have dragged on since 1992, involving retailers Asda, J Sainsbury, Argos and Wm Morrison over the level so-called interchange...
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