Hints and tips:
...“Bags’ Groove”, a blues written by Milt Jackson, was introduced as “a little shuffle”....
...For others, he is Jackson Lamb, the irascible spymaster in Mick Herron’s hugely popular Slough House series....
...The best one Atkins was given was when the comedian Ronnie Barker told her to look credible, not noticeable....
...It nevertheless stretches credulity to link any of Africa’s problems, even tangentially, with the art of Jackson Pollock. Still, there are memorable characters....
...I started to do portraits of people who had influenced me – everyone from Michael Jackson to Mozart to Marley. They sold, and the grocery money started to come in....
...“There are very few areas where we have a direct check on what polls say,” Ms Jackson says....
...A pair of diminutive female officers literally called Reggie and Ronnie are getting closer and closer to the truth....
...Even a radically re-shaped cover of “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” was sparked by Vallé’s childhood adulation of Michael Jackson. The pianist’s album features trumpeter Roy Hargrove as a guest....
...“President Trump is more of a Jackson Pollock.”...
...His credits range from Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin to David Sanborn and Marcus Miller....
...Then came the heavy funk/hip-hop of “6”, from the album Numbers, and a segue into Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’”, the trumpet now fragile and melodic over the riff that lay underneath....
...Pat Metheny launched his current quartet of pianist Gwilym Simcock, bassist Linda Oh and Antonio Sánchez on drums in the UK with a steaming residency at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...Could Obama not have looked for inspiration to artist Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank, just up the road from Jackson Park?...
...Christmas came early to Ronnie Scott’s this year....
...The word was coined during the 1952 presidential campaign to describe the thoughtful and (worse) witty Adlai Stevenson, running against Dwight Eisenhower for the Republicans....
...Scorp (Dwight Waugh) delivers packages for Fed Ex only to receive the very best package himself: a baby girl. To April 4, armoryonpark.org...
...The performance ended with Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” taken as a shuffle and driven to ecstasy by drummer Landham’s controlled dynamics and whipcrack back beat....
...For the next week, Ronnie Scott’s lays bare the intricacies of unadorned rhythm sections with nightly double-bills as part of the International Piano Trio Festival....
...Plectrum-style guitarist Bruce Edwards fuses harmonic adventure with George Benson licks; drummer Gene Jackson is a percussion virtuoso who has mastered the idiom....
...Jackson introduced the ballad that followed with the words: “When you get to be 66, different things happen to you.”...
...Wynton Marsalis doesn’t have much truck with amplification, and played the entire first house of his short Ronnie Scott’s residency off-mic at the level of an animated conversation....
...Who: Jackson-Stops & Staff, www.jackson-stops.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7664 6649 ——————————————- Villa Helianthe, St Tropez, France, €5.9m Where: Just off Avenue Paul Roussel, in the centre of St Tropez, 300...
...Joseph’s band is cross-generational – alto saxophonist Peter King played at the opening of the original Ronnie Scott’s; trumpeter Jackson Mathod is still in his teens – and deserves its “all-star” billing...
...Garrick scatted the twisty line, the band roared an echo and drummer Alan Jackson whipped up the beat. When a teenage Garrick first heard the original, he thought: “What am I going to school for?”...
...When Wynton Marsalis first played at Ronnie Scott’s, some 30 years ago, he was a killer young sideman oozing confidence, style and brash virtuosity....
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