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...I particularly like the third — written on Ellington’s deathbed in tribute to Martin Luther King....
...Conductor Robert Ames cued the orchestra’s entry at precisely the right time....
...Reporting by Sujeet Indap, Joe Rennison and Ortenca Aliaj in New York, Mehul Srivastava in Tel Aviv and Robert Smith and Kaye Wiggins in London...
...Ellington and Barclays declined to comment....
...Suella Braverman, attorney-general, last week accused the ITV presenter Robert Peston of “Remainiac make-believe” after he challenged her over the government’s unilateral plan to rip up the Brexit treaty...
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...Kinderman, co-head of credit strategies at Ellington....
...When it comes to Holiday, the problems with drugs and men are undeniable, but I prefer more recent, low-key portraits such as Robert O’Meally’s Lady Day, which makes the case for remembering her first and...
...This insight might not have been news in the 17th century, when Robert Burton wrote his vagrant and capacious The Anatomy of Melancholy....
...start-ups (FT) Regulators across Europe clash over bans on short selling (FT) Regulator clears Flutter’s £10bn tie-up with Stars Group (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert...
...(Michael Ellington and Costas Milas of Liverpool university, on the LSE politics blog) Hard numbers British shoppers helped the UK economy to rebound in the three months to the end of May after a poor...
...For the few numbers joined by dance, the excellent, underexposed Dance Theatre of Harlem choreographer Robert Garland added grace notes of swishy hips and pizzazzy hands to the ballet lexicon....
...For the likes of Marsalis and Duke Ellington, it inspired extended works that documented African-American experience....
...The veteran bassist’s first big-band recording as a leader refreshes the jazz repertory with original scores by musical director Robert M Freedman – 1914’s “St....
...A free ballad, an Ellington cover and tightly argued funk deliver contrast....
...To the reed, the dancers bow luxuriously before their demigod king (Jamar Roberts, perfectly typecast)....
...(Matthew Rushing’s Uptown) and spontaneous subway dramas (Camille Brown’s Groove to Nobody’s Business); glorified dance parties (George Faison’s Suite Otis and the team effort Love Stories); works to Ellington...
...Grand masters such as Keith Jarrett are on top form, Craig Taborn and Matthew Shipp are giving the avant garde a funky edge, and at the recent London Jazz Festival new-generation pianists like Robert Glasper...
...Now it’s Scott who’s a serious dude, forging, along with pianist Robert Glasper, a credible jazz/hip-hop alliance with a trumpet sound that was three years in the crafting....
...Highlights at the main stage at the Grote Markt square this year include the Belgium Jazz Big Band, playing standards including works by Duke Ellington and Horace Silver, and Belgian pianist Pierre Anckaert...
...intermittences du coeur, and Eleanora Abbagnato, Hervé Moreau and Stéphane Bullion repeated their tremendous performances: in the Prisonnière duet, when Marcel contemplates the sleeping Albertine, and then Robert...
...Never has chocolate sounded so invitingly just beyond reach or London’s music halls so close to the classic, Cadillac-coveting blues of Robert Johnson....
...Cautious investors might croon Duke’s Ellington’s “Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me”, as a warning against second-guessing Fed rate-setting decisions....
...Its most illustrious graduate is indisputably Glenn Miller, the bandleader – notwithstanding the claims of Byron White, the late Supreme Court justice, actor Robert Redford and others – and his legacy runs...
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