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...To mark the occasion of his double-bill exhibition at both the Bury Street and Helmet Row galleries of Modern Art in London, Ron Nagle had his nails done....
...An iridescent spree” — stand on bass-driven funk conjured by producer Don Was....
...As the band joined one-by-one, DJ Logic added the scratch and smear of turntables, Ron Blake a scattering of soulful tenor sax and a sampled Miles Davis throatily repeated “jazz is just an attitude of mind...
...“Beauty & Essex” floated along on keyboardist Ron Avant’s woozy West Coast vocoder vocals....
...Bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi’s thrums, sustains and neo-funk lines move across the pulse, sounding like a cross between sub-woofer bass and tuba....
...When Ornette Coleman unleashed, in 1976, the amplified harmolodic funk of the band Prime Time, a quartet of Coleman collaborators, led by Joshua Redman’s saxophonist father Dewey, convened under the banner...
...The second set included an impressionist ballad and rollicking southern soul, and Jarrett’s fourth and final encore was a slice of urgent funk....
...Motown’s house band, the Funk Brothers, was made up of gifted jazz-trained musicians....
...On “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars cheerfully yelps for “some liquor” to be put in his cup....
...Ron Wood, guitarist with the Rolling Stones, became his closest friend after Cooke died....
...Ron Carter’s exquisitely detailed chamber jazz evolves through shaded textures and pointillist riffs, shifting rhythms and an unerring sense of time....
...jazz recordings range from rumbustious linear jazz and well-heeled funk to the chamber jazz presented here....
...Its stores are so admired that JC Penney, a department store, has recruited the man behind them, Ron Johnson, as its chief executive....
...“We hope nothing will slow the momentum,” says Ron Ness, president of the state’s petroleum council. “There will be bumps in the road but, at the moment, our economy is full speed ahead.”...
...Ron Somers, president of the US-India Business Council, an advocacy organisation representing top US companies investing in India, said he was worried that ”a backlash against global sourcing could rise...
...Ron Blake let the rhythm section fill in the spaces before bursting into the dense, angular lines of contemporary fusion....
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