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...Equally at home playing cutting-edge modern jazz or R&B, his credits span two decades and range from the Mingus Big Band and rapper Q-Tip to an upcoming Village Vanguard residency with guitarist Bill Frisell...
...by R Can & Sonic Noise. I heard it at a party; it’s a kind of techno dancehall track. It’s so good, so spontaneous....
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...Blake Works I, created for Paris Opera Ballet in 2016, is danced to the easy-listening electronica of The Colour in Anything by British singer-songwriter James Blake....
...agreed: “We call on the other leading governments to put all efforts into progressing their own incentive models so that sufficient global scale is achieved that will attract the necessary investment in R&...
...He moved to London, though, just as many jazz gigs were switching to R&B. “The Marquee Club, then in Oxford Street, [used to have] jazz seven nights a week.”...
...More recently, he has become a big donor to a new, younger crop of rightwing populists, including Blake Masters and JD Vance, who are seeking election to the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections....
...Graeme Miller, Sunderland council leader, said: “We disagree with the government’s move to open schools further — it would seem to be a decision taken based on London’s figures — where the R (reproduction...
...There was a crowded karaoke night on Thursday; but the hottest ticket in town was Wednesday’s party in a train station-turned-event-space where R&B singer Usher and magician David Blaine performed....
...The cover design is by pop artist Peter Blake, who also did the artwork for The Who’s Face Dances in 1981....
...James Blake live, though, is startlingly different from James Blake on record....
...Neil Blake, global head of forecasting, CBRE A weak Q1. Bounce back in H2 if a deal is agreed....
...B, exemplified by acts from James Blake to The Weeknd....
...Both Londoners specialised in nocturnal R&B ballads, all soft crooning and hushed atmosphere....
...“There area a number of [broad] economic indicators that look real positive for the US and the consumer and spending” Blake Nordstrom, co-president of the eponymous department store told investors, “yet...
...R&B, usually so extrovert and expressive, has taken a gothic turn. The pace has slowed down, the mood has got darker....
...“I M U U R 2” (2013) brilliantly converges collection and art work....
...Yet despite the echoes – James Blake is another – her songs aren’t derivative....
...New men – the sort of chaps who don’t require five pints of strong lager to get in touch with their emotions – have a new troubadour to slot alongside their James Blake and Bon Iver CDs....
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...Boom-click R&B takes on Alt-J’s “Tessellate” and James Blake’s “Life Round Here” brought a welcome rhythmic downshift....
...There are those who merely flirted with its methods – R.B....
...With a little sigh she returns to Blake....
...“Overjoyed”, with its ponderous piano and skittering breakbeats, was join-the-dots James Blake. During “Flaws”, Smith waded deep into the crowd, still singing....
...Brooklyn-born, Berlin-based Tom Krell croons lovelorn lyrics over dreamy, floaty, laptop-generated beats: it’s bedsit R&B, cut from a similar cloth to James Blake though with a vaguer sense of purpose....
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