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...Drummer Eric Harland is suitably restrained and bassist Reuben Rogers is equally strong in country music and jazz....
...This new project combines the supple bass-and-drums thrust of longtime collaborators Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland with the sheen of two contrasting guitarists....
...The centrepiece of the album is “Trees”, its pastoral musical setting, with flutes like birdsong and harp and guitar murmuring in the branches, Rogers navigating a wood that alternates between threat and...
...“Back from Burma” began with resonant Reuben Rogers double bass, single-beat mallets and a sparse, emotion-laden theme — the piece evolved in intensity as if by stealth before ending with three resounding...
...Also present, on “Carry the Earth”, is Roger Waters, who is invested in the Palestinian cause to the extent that he has retrospectively added it into The Wall....
...It took a lot of noise to prise the band back for their encore, “Green Dolphin Street”, introduced at a slant with flute-like warbles from Redman’s sax. ★★★★☆ ronniescotts.co.uk...
...reputation as a worthy but now bygone hub for English modernism (in the 20th century, a thriving arts community circled around painters and sculptors such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and, later, Roger...
...“Neither flutes nor coupes are any good for champagne”, he explains, “a flute is too narrow to allow the bouquet to open up, while coupes release it all too widely.”...
...scenario, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn could become prime minister and the Tories could face the hard yards of opposition: invites to the poshest parties could dry up, with warm chardonnay replacing the flutes...
...In Bicester Village, where a £10 flute of champagne is on offer at the Veuve Clicquot stall, mall owner Value Retail is trying to replicate the full-price luxury experience....
...Pianist Ahmad Jamal’s poise and playful use of dynamics are about as far removed from big band orthodoxy as you could get, yet in “But Not for Me” these subtleties were conjured by muted trumpets, flutes...
...This rethinking of British modernism – Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, Terry Frost – in a European and America context, however, plays intriguingly on tensions...
...I went to Christ’s Hospital School and there was a teacher there who was quite grand called Lord Coverdale and he started teaching us German using the libretto of The Magic Flute . . . I loved it....
...There were anthems and dances, love songs and dirges, Lloyd’s flute and a lovely passage of harmonised sax and vocals that hovered precisely over sparse accompaniment....
...While thirsty hacks knocked back the Pol Roger, Tory MPs and staffers alike were under strict instructions to stick to the flat stuff....
...The ripple he started became a wave, influencing such distinguished practitioners as Christopher Hogwood, John Eliot Gardiner and Roger Norrington....
...Ghostman , by Roger Hobbs, Doubleday, RRP£9.99/Vintage, RRP$14.95 The protagonists of Hobbs’ breakout Ghostman are criminals bereft of any moral code, but the author invites us to identify with them....
...Gareth Davies, principal flute for the past 13 years, combs archive material to tell the story of that visit, setting his account alongside impressions of the LSO’s touring schedule today – a gentle dip...
...Roger Pascoe, head of music at Hanover primary school in Islington, north London, says 11-year-old Gabriel Millard-Clothier throws himself into everything he does....
...The painting, “Port of Swinemünde” (1915), was left to three medical charities by its owner, French collector Roger-Jean Spiri, when he died four years ago, and destined to raise funds for good works....
...But the distinctive sound came from the teenage Roger Landu’s hand-built satong, cobbled together from a milk-powder tin and electrical flex....
...Near Vaison la Romaine, Jean-Pierre Fougeirol is selling Château du Crestet, the property of the late architect Roger Anger....
...he asks, thrusting into my hand the score of a concerto for harpsichord, flute and violin, with Bach’s name on the title page, which he recorded some years ago....
...This is the way with his film of The Magic Flute. Set on the battlefields of the Great War – very high-concept – it will drive many Mozart traditionalists to distraction....
...Liddle goes large Roger Liddle, Tony Blair’s former European adviser, is taking to life in Brussels. He left Downing Street in 2004 to join his chum Peter Mandelson....
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