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...The LP-length set is rounded out by three Byrd originals....
...Although it’s a clinic, we see no evidence of any staff, and time lurches forward in odd jumps, signalled by shifts in lighting (Isabella Byrd) behind the latticed wall on the biscuit-brown set (from the...
...Rising-star duo Franc Moody channel Ennio Morricone into Donald Byrd’s jazz and choir composition “Cristo Redentor” to bring the compilation to an end....
...The two sessions from 1963 feature trumpeters Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd with then new kids on the block Herbie Hancock and Andrew Hill — Hancock would shortly join Miles Davis and Hill quickly evolved into...
...Theo Croker’s assured virtuosity and innate sense of swing reflect early-years tutoring from grandfather Doc Cheatham and mentoring by soul-jazz legend Donald Byrd....
...Hawkins went back to early music — William Byrd for rhythm and William Tisdale for “extravagant harmony” — while Fairhall referenced the English pub and name-checked the singalong pianist Winifred Atwell...
...There are snatches of lullaby sung to daughter Rosie (who gurgles in appreciation); there are old folk songs and a canon by William Byrd....
...The singer is the daughter of the great American soul singer Vicky Anderson and the stepdaughter of Bobby Byrd....
...The performance opened with two compositions by the late trumpeter Donald Byrd, the first “French Spice”, a warm-up lope, the second the short and sprightly “Fly Little Bird Fly”....
...Regina Montoya, who oversees Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings’ poverty task force, describes it as a “donut city” in which a booming centre is surrounded by concentrated poverty....
...Doreen Byrd, a black woman who moved to South Carolina in 1980, says the state is still gripped by a “palpable” sense of racism....
...He discovered jazz in his early teens and by the time he went on the road at 20 with trumpeter Donald Byrd, he had absorbed the impressionism and soul of the best contemporary jazz....
...Far from being seasoned veterans of a dying jazz circuit, the band were youthful protégés of an established jazz heavyweight, trumpeter Donald Byrd, and early records twinned instrumental nous with new-generation...
...The American polar explorer Richard Byrd said: “This is the way the world will look when the last man dies.” If that is true, we will probably all have been poisoned....
...In 1960 he joined Donald Byrd’s band, and two years later released his first album for Blue Note. Then came that call from Miles Davis, at the heart of a musically turbulent decade....
...Headliner was the American “first lady of flute”, Bobbi Humphrey, who scored a series of jazz-funk top sellers in the early 1970s – she name-checked era-defining collaborators such as trumpeter Donald Byrd...
...Edward Kennedy progressed from lecher to liberal lion, Robert Byrd from the Ku Klux Klan to conscience of the Senate. Al Gore was a miserable presidential candidate but now saves the earth....
...In 2004, Stipe and his bandmates Peter Buck and Mike Mills were in critical and commercial decline....
...But Mike Pence, a conservative Republican, called it “an important first step in restoring public confidence in the fiscal integrity of the national government”....
...The first time I met Mike Tyson he erupted and physically threatened a fellow reporter. In my naiveté, I told him, “Stop degrading yourself, Mike. What would Cus have thought of that?”...
...They were joined by two veteran lawmakers, Robert Byrd, a Democrat, and John Warner, a Republican....
...It thrived on the clash of personalities, and the heavyweight division has failed to provide one since Mike Tyson's boxing became as flawed as his psyche....
...Mike Sears, Boeing's former finance director, could face up to six months in jail when he is sentenced in January for his admitted role in illegally hiring Ms Druyun....
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