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...Other visitors to get the pale white sand between their toes include musicians Ronnie Wood, Harry Styles and Mariah Carey, plus Bill Gates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and Kate Moss....
...This previously unreleased live 1986 set, compiled from two nights at Ronnie Scott’s, is the drummer’s last recording....
...The summons to New York was to look him over as a replacement for Ron Carter, one of the all-time great bass players....
...We meet on the morning before that first night (of two) at Ronnie Scott’s....
...The piece was set up by a fast-fingered, full-fretboard solo from bassist Rashaan Carter, a rare non-Roney highlight....
...Carter was imperious and supple in support....
...Moods changed as though by magic, Carter was majesterial, and a beguiled audience clamoured for more....
...Trumpet and sax were tight and soulful, and brothers Rashaan and Russell Carter on bass and drums delivered the right measure of polyrhythmic bustle and backbeat bite....
...Carter’s delivery has the energy to burst the seams of any setting....
...The slurs, syncopations and double stops that Ron Carter brought into Miles Davis’s groundbreaking 60s quintet have long been part of the fabric of advanced modern jazz bass playing – Carter’s 2,000-plus...
...Though the list is not celebrity focused there are CBEs for Ronnie Corbett, Helena Bonham Carter and Clive James....
...“If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there,” said Glasper. “My idea was to go full circle....
..., actor Hilary Chapman, for services to nursing Giles Clarke, chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board Ronnie Corbett, entertainer Fiona Dawe, former chief executive officer, YouthNet Rona Fairhead...
...Carter is a trenchant improviser with a flamboyant technique, a gravelly tone and a contemporary box of tricks, which Hutchinson supports with supple chatter and stripped-down swing....
...regret Sassoon will admit to (other than getting divorced from his second wife, Beverley Sassoon, with whom he had four children, including a daughter who died of a drug overdose; he has been married to Ronnie...
...In London, for example, just 23 nights in 2009 at Ronnie Scott’s were headlined by female band-leaders – drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, violinist Regina Carter and bassist Esperanza Spalding capture the...
...Ron Carter was the bass player in Miles Davis’s propulsive 1960s quintet, which featured Herbie Hancock on piano and Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone....
...James Carter, Ronnie Scott’s, London Multi-instrumentalist James Carter somewhat unusually introduced the first set’s running order before a note had been played, with the reassuring demeanour of a restaurateur...
...Ron Carter is best known for playing the holding role as bassist with Miles Davis’s high-octane 1960s quintet....
...Elton John, Ronnie Corbett and Premiership footballers have figured previously. One of today's promised pairings could inspire a caption contest....
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