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...Antony Penrose, from her portrait, fashion and art work in 1920s and ’30s Paris and New York to her wartime photojournalism and her wide circle of artist friends, which included Picasso, Dora Maar, Man Ray...
...An infectious hip-swinger about the love of lucre, at once brazen and innocent, its genesis lay in a pounding Ray Charles-style piano vamp that Gordy heard him playing one day. “What’s that?”...
...Not included on SuperBlue, Ray Charles’s hit “Lonely Avenue” was reworked into a dazzling mix of band showcase and blues lament....
...A DJ played funk music outside a wedding hall on Snyder Avenue that had been converted to a polling place....
...“Sky High” is Caribbean funk, Marielle Rivard channelling Kid Creole while Chrétien’s keyboards quaver and wobble....
...His sideman credits include Ray Charles, George Benson and Prince, as well as some of this album’s many guests, but his own-name discography is restricted to a scattering of projects....
...mehreen.khan@ft.com ; @mehreenkhn Letter in response this briefing: To act like the Fed, ECB must amend mandate / From Ray Kinsella, Ashford, Co Wicklow, Ireland...
...“Have a Talk with God” translated the theme of religious worship to slinky funk....
...I followed [bassist] Ray Brown around like a lost puppy for years.”...
...The Sanborn aesthetic joins angular modern jazz to the shouts and hollers of soul; he opened with a cover of “Comin’ Home Baby” and, later in the set, played “Brother Ray”, a homage to Ray Charles....
...As on his recent recordings, Sanborn returned to the ballads, blues and popular songs favoured by his first inspiration, the late Hank Crawford, lead alto saxophonist for Ray Charles when the singer was...
...Ray Charles, auditioning him for his backing band, was astonished to find the self-taught Womack using his ear to pick up the songs immediately....
...First some theory, courtesy of homo ponteaquam, commonly known as Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund giant Bridgewater....
...They took in modern blues, an early funk classic, Eddie Harris’s “Cold Duck Time” and added a slow and sensuous ballad, “Easy Living”....
...The analysis traced gamma rays to the remnants of two supernovae that exploded about 10,000 years ago. Confirmation of their origin comes 100 years after the discovery of cosmic rays....
...After months of snow, biting wind, dull skies and a general absence of sun, the meteorological funk burnt off early on Wednesday morning and by midday the city had been transformed into a place where one...
...“We Could Fly” struts by to a classic disco bassline and bustling brass, “Happiness” revisits the moment disco began shading into garage in the 1980s and “Yellow Orange Rays” shifts the focus to funk with...
...Ray Barrell, Brunel University: The recovery is sustainable, as the existence of spare capacity in the economy will have a positive effect on markets once growth has started....
...Most disappointing is the Fosse-esque treatment that Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women chief, gives her paean to funk, to a Funkadelic-Parliament playlist....
...You don’t have to lose your funk at 70 – particularly if you’re a Japanese gentleman....
...David Sanborn was inspired to play saxophone when, aged 11, he heard saxophonists Fathead Newman and Hank Crawford with the great Ray Charles band of the late 1950s....
...His historically themed projects have unpicked the musical DNA of an astonishing range of genres connected with the African diaspora, from Caribbean reggae and rumba to the mainstream jazz, hip-hop and funk...
...The child prodigy who made his first record aged 11 (a tribute to his hero Ray Charles) has declined into a maudlin and unproductive late adulthood....
...two well-placed notes to check the sound quality – not up to scratch as we were to learn later – and the alto-saxophonist’s night of triumph-in-adversity began with a tightly arranged fusion of jazz and funk...
...So as Hollywood plays hide-and-seek with its holy messages, secularising Narnia and purging The Golden Compass of the God-word, is there a funk-free zone in religious screen drama today?...
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