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...Print in our house, as you’d expect, was sacrosanct. I assumed I would never be seduced by the e-edition. Then it happened — I tried it and my reading changed....
...“I used to forget the tiniest everyday things: I’d put eggs on to boil, I’d forget. Papers were stacked four feet high on my desk,” said Davis, 74....
...Guitarist John Scofield, one-time sideman to Miles Davis and with credits as long as your arm, applied his steely jazz eye to a bar-room repertoire and joyously rekindled the passion of his formative years...
...“In England, I’d become too well-known as a Tatler photographer,” Jones says of his move to the US. “It was wonderful to be invisible again.”...
...He also consults for Garesio in Serralunga d’Alba. Colombo’s 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo has more class than many much more expensive Barolos, though his 2020 Barolo was the star of his range....
...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...Waking up in hospital one weekend in July 2017, Davis was informed by doctors that he’d lost sight in one eye in an accident....
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...“I’d be shocked if they don’t do a sizeable AI deal this year, because there’s an AI arms race going on, and Apple is not going to be on the outside looking in.”...
...“I thought I’d be designing chairs and lighting; music was a pipe dream,” he says....
...I’m thinking they’d go nicely in the bedroom. The beauty staple I’m never without is a hot shower....
...“If you own a piece of land and thought you’d build up to 15,000 sq ft on it one day, the opportunity has gone,” says Rockhill....
...We fall into an embrace or, as he’d probably describe it, “a polite hug”....
...I’d love to own one of her energising and mesmerising line drawings in sap-green watercolour ink, which were first shown in London back in 2017....
...New York-based Meyer Davis Studio was brought in to oversee the interiors, which are both more ebullient and more sophisticated than the old W style of yore....
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...She also toured intensively as a performer, leading the Carla Bley Band with Mantler, Swallow, the trombonist Roswell Rudd and drummer D Sharpe....
...“Whenever people left they’d try to get Hank’s folder to take wherever they were going.” “You could tell he was on to something even before he started the account....
...I remember one woman telling me that the book she’d written was bad. As it happened, she was right. Still, she’d published it. She could take that triumph to her grave....
...I’d love to do a writing programme at Harvard – it has to be really good or I won’t take time away from my family....
...The UK’s first Brexit secretary, David Davis, suggested London could keep the headquarters of two key regulators. “Totally impossible!...
...I’d hoped Gandhi might have heard Peter Sellers’ “Bal-Ham — Gateway to the South” sketch, which Henson has been quoting since the soup arrived....
...Presumably the flunkies cleaning up after the Princesse d’Harcourt would not have appreciated the exaggerated sincerity of her pissing on the floor....
...When he arrived in Britain with his mother and brothers the shock was repeated, as what was “paradise compared to where we’d been” gradually revealed its “complexities”....
...“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.”...
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