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...“I’ve played so many strange, villainous, unwholesome people, but my life is contrary to that....
...In an adjoining gallery, weird sculptures by Haring glow phosphorescent in the dark, like strange underwater creatures....
...A pair of diminutive female officers literally called Reggie and Ronnie are getting closer and closer to the truth....
...If you were only to read it, you might think that the famous skit on British attitudes to class as embodied by John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett was just another example of punching down....
...But while the earlier film radiated the cold and strange, now we have the bluntly glam: sub-Scorsese mayhem and repeated reminders that this is the 1960s....
...José James began his Thursday night Ronnie Scott’s set with a moment’s silence for those killed in Paris, and ended with an a cappella reading of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”, made famous by Billie...
...She debuted in the UK at Ronnie Scott’s in 2014 and sold out a show during this year’s London Jazz Festival....
...Ronnie Hui is the chief executive of Town Health International Medical Group, the owner of the office block. Until last year, he was chief executive and then finance director of Hanergy Thin Film....
...But they still sound like a strange hybrid of Latin dance band and modern jazz orchestra, darting off at angles and throwing in whatever takes the composer’s fancy....
...Ra’s eccentricities remain intact, but now the chants, rampaging free jazz and strange library music merge with blasts of dub and the throb of reggae....
...The Chinese are more familiar with their own strange variant of pool in which the cue ball is used as the object rather than the ammunition....
...Strange timings and sparky duets followed until the original theme reappeared to call things to a halt....
...There was a surreal ballad and references to roots, Lovano’s soft-voiced phonics, a calypso and “Mystic”, whose fragments of bowed bass gave the impression that something strange lurked around the corner...
...Like Vivette, Iver Benattar, who lives with his wife Ronnie in Fred Perry’s old house in Ealing, has also become used to strange people standing outside his house – he has even had relatives of the late...
...The Friday launch of the London Jazz Festival routinely runs a grand-slam singers showcase, Jazz Voice, at The Barbican into a late-night taster menu at Ronnie Scott’s....
...Last year’s highlight visit to Ronnie Scott’s was with an orthodox acoustic quintet, and this performance similarly featured breathtaking cadenzas, unaccompanied torrents of notes and high-pitched squeaks...
...“The last one I saw was my cousin, Ronnie. Every time he invites me over to dinner, he turns to religion. Last time I saw him, I didn’t back out, I took him full on....
...Like the equally authoritative trumpeter Christian Scott, whose quintet raised the roof at Ronnie’s last week, he connects jazz to contemporary urban sounds without tinkering with authenticity....
...He’s the guy with the strange, weird mullet, you know? That’s him.” Christoforou, who was born in 1974, is the London-based artist behind Whose Hair?...
...Ronnie Scott’s provided a fascinating contrast in jazz style with consecutive gigs by saxophonists Joe Lovano and Andy Sheppard....
...I had the honour of walking it in, flanked by Bystander men, accompanied by the Ronnie Scott’s house band playing “Happy Birthday”....
...The Stones occupy a strange middle ground between commercial leviathan and their more intimate roots....
...Ronnie: The Autobiography By Ronnie Wood Pan Macmillan £20, 358 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Roguish anecdotes tumble from Ronnie Wood’s autobiography: horseplay with Rod Stewart and Keith Richards, a wife-swapping...
...The collection of 20 pod-like, polyester fibreglass structures may look strange but it’s a big improvement on the “cardboard cities” typically occupied by the city’s homeless....
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