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...“I have N.E.R.D tees that immediately take me back to the summer of 2005: good, carefree times in my life,” he says....
...One of his school friends was actually in the 36th Street N train stop when the smoke bomb went off....
...Jalen N’Gonda sings with the caressing falsetto of a Smokey Robinson or Al Green and has the relaxed sense of time to match....
...Its eclectic score draws on everything from hip-hop and R’n’B to Broadway show tune traditions....
...Glasper’s edgy merging of jazz, hip-hop and R’n’B became a core component of the revamped label’s aesthetic, and Glasper and his bassist Derrick Hodge also acted as producers and talent scouts....
...roll — the up-beat mood continues on “S.H.A.R.D.S.”, the next track....
...It was, he says, like recapturing the early impulse of rock’n’roll....
...“But they would say: ‘I fixed that n****r something to eat.’” Wilma was at school with a man called Don Blankenship, who went on to become chief executive of Massey Energy, a coal operator....
...They are least inclined to bullshit; they’ll tell you how many people an act is drawing,” says Mike Smith, a highly respected A&R man who signed early deals with Blur, PJ Harvey, The White Stripes and Arctic...
...He bubbled and fizzed from the outset as the band transformed N*E*R*D’s punk-funk into light-touch, funky jazz....
...The electrifying stomp of “You Better Run”, like a hard-boiled 1960s R&B band going punk, showed where Gallagher’s songwriting speciality really lies....
...Both musicians were formally trained, had an appetite for modern jazz and liked R&B and pop....
...It’s just a random, very funky R’n’B track that had been covered by the Stones, and was a particular favourite of mine at the time....
...Drums hinted at rocking R’n’B; Brötzmann’s mournful tenor sax cries became honking riffs that spiralled outwards and broke into fragments....
...LHT o2academybrixton.co.uk, 0844 477 2000 Perfume Genius, November 23, The Caves, Edinburgh, then touring Following the irresolute synth-balladry of 2010’s Put Your Back N 2 It, Perfume Genius’s Mike...
...Mike Hobart thecockpit.org.uk Photograph: Getty...
...Davis’s mix of R’n’B licks and modern jazz lines was also good value, and his soul-flecked phrasing on “Lover Man” was a duet highlight of the second set....
...“Longevity” had an R&B slouch – most characteristic of the current album, Fragrant World – beneath its falsetto yelps and staccato bleeps....
...The accent is fusion, with 80’s grooves and the rhythms of hip-hop and contemporary R’n’B supporting Carrington’s ingenious arrangements and a succession of stand-out vocals and instrumental breaks – Cassandra...
...Early in the set, Thomas explained she would take requests – “I won’t mix gospel with R‘n’B, so there will be no hymns tonight”, she told us – and referred to a crib sheet of biblical proportions....
...Miles Davis Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sony) When Miles Davis recorded Bitches Brew in 1970, he wanted to capture the potency of rock and R’n’B for jazz....
...Olatuja’s compositions took in story-telling R’n’B – “Altar Call” and “Unconditional” – the rap-inflected, syllable-heavy “Hold On” and the rousing gospel of “Walk With Me”....
...On Friday May 1, the veteran South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela will combine the exuberant and the elegiac with his trademark mix of township jazz, American R’n’B and pensive trumpet....
...; “Looters Will Be Shot survivors Will Be Shot Again”; “Lisa + Donnie R OK”; “Hey Katrina!! That’s All You Got? You Big Sissy!! We Will Be Back!!”...
...By November 1963, Billboard was no longer even keeping separate pop and R&B charts. But then came the British Invasion....
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