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...There’s a famous photo [by Andrew J Russell] of Promontory Summit, and the golden spike being driven in.”...
...Google and Universal Music Group are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated by artificial intelligence, four people familiar with the talks have told the Financial Times....
...Trumpeter Russell Gunn’s muted solo gripped, Miller’s was fast-fingered, lyrical and intense and alto saxophonist Donald Hayes mixed bebop and blues....
...“As a performer she would take songs and over the next three to four nights she would change melodies and form new versions of what she’d been singing. She was a musician’s singer.”...
...As Hornsby recalls, Lee told him: “Yeah, no . . . you know I like melody, Bruce.”...
...“You would hear the same melody differently because of everything that has happened in between. It has to come home.”...
...The ETFs track the FTSE Chinese Government Bond Index and Chinese Policy Bank Bond indices, and were launched just a week before FTSE Russell started on October 29 to include Chinese debt into its flagship...
...Corigliano cites the experience of writing the film soundtrack for Ken Russell’s Altered States in the late 1970s....
...And there’s an appearance from Leon Russell, whose death four years ago presents no impediment to his contribution to “Anything Can Happen” — a gruff, rolling thing recorded with Hornsby in 1992....
...CSOP AM noted the rapid rise in the ETF’s asset pool had been partly driven by China’s stable economic recovery, the appreciation of the renminbi and FTSE Russell’s plans to include Chinese government bonds...
...A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, their 24th album, is recognisably in the same ballpark as that, and subsequent releases: there’s the repetition; there are the memorable, minimalist, often scale-based melodies...
...of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, and this new album is her second of 2019, following hard on the heels of The Songs Of Our Native Daughters, on which she reclaimed slave narratives in the company of Allison Russell...
...As “The Blues” unfolded, drummer Alex Bailey merged funk with swing, trumpeter Russell Gunn hit un-muted highs and the leader conducted from within....
...Tesori’s music subtly mixes little snatches of melody with full-throttle releases of tension, as in Russell’s outpouring of regret “Days and Days”....
...Wylie also notes how 20th-century minimalist composers, from Steve Reich and John Cage to Arthur Russell, resonate through club music. “Minimalism created a trance through repeated loops,” he explains....
...Two of them, Boule Mpanya and Russell Tshiebua, are Congolese singers who memorably spin Mahler melodies into polyphonic material....
...(Dylan’s melody is similar to “Lord Randal”, too, as is his use of 3/4 time.)...
...Hip jazz vocalist Eddie Jefferson added lyrics to Davis’s melody in 1968....
...Ivo Watts-Russell, co-founder of the quintessentially indie label 4AD, counted the song among his favourites....
...Alec Russell Editor of FT Weekend I will shamelessly abuse my position and plump for two outstanding novels....
...He writes about the feeling of “movement” in melody, the “gravitational forces” that pull a piece towards its resolution, and the emotional “authority” that some works exert – none of which would be comprehensible...
...He conjured attention-grabbing solos from beautifully crafted walking lines, melodies re-worked from the common stock and his own tricks – even the full-neck slurs and multiple plunkings had a strictly musical...
...Both joined him for Tuesday’s show, Albarn playing mournful piano melodies and Russell producing stark electronic beats....
...There wasn’t even much to read until Lord Russell of Liverpool, a lawyer at the Nuremberg trials, published his Scourge of the Swastika (1954), which we devoured in the upstairs synagogue library, aghast...
...’s precision and finesse enthralled throughout without distracting from the whole, and when he finally pulled out all the stops, he delivered a dulcet tour de force, toying pensively with a fragment of melody...
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