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...Strickland chose Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge” and McBride Joe Henderson’s jam-session favourite “Recorda Me” — McBride had worked with the late saxophonist....
...In addition to the Scrubs, we now also share a Ulez zone with Wandsworth jail, from whence the great train robber Ronnie Biggs once escaped....
...September 25 to February 16 2025; further information and tickets here soon ‘Monet and London: Views of the Thames’, The Courtauld Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament can...
...He co-founded Apax Partners, a pioneering venture capital group, before turning to social impact two decades ago, helping create three socially-focused companies — Bridges Fund Management, Social Finance...
...This two-set performance presented songs from their second Blue Note album, A Wall Becomes a Bridge , themed jointly on current politics and the struggle to overcome creative block....
...As one of their contemporaries, Ronnie Cutrone, told The New York Times in 2001, “New York was elegant and sleazy. Now it’s a shopping mall for dot-commers. We need our crime rate back....
...“We don’t want to bore the pants off people,” says Ronnie Wood, laughing....
...The performance opened with the riffy motif, gliding upward brass and swung bridge of “Miller Time”, a Blake original dedicated to the late pianist Mulgrew Miller....
...Following tradition, the bridge was tightly swung. But this was just the start of an epic group improvisation that cast its net wide while signposting the form....
...As the piece drew to a close, the tune “Somewhere” took shape, notes stretched and verse shoehorned into the bridge....
...The bridge changed key, there were across-the-beat stabs and a brief drum solo drew mighty applause. The piece ended with a trumpet and keyboard chase and a tight unison scale....
...It was followed by the stark stabs and double-time bridge of “Suite Sioux”, also written by Hubbard, and then an instrumental arrangement of Ray Charles’s gospel-inflected “Hard Times”, written by Charles...
...It concerned Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker found hanging from a strut under Blackfriars Bridge in London....
...Ronnie King, secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Fire Safety & Rescue Group, said: “We have been saying for years that the regulations need to be changed.”...
...Next came “Naked Bridges, Diving Brides”, written as a wedding present for a friend with a little help from Felix Mendelssohn....
...“Cinema remains hugely influential, from the 1950s frames worn by Tom Hardy [as Ronnie Kray] in Legend, to the 1970s sports shapes in Miles Ahead.”...
...In that way we’re trying to build bridges and bring people back in.”...
...The evening ended with a minor-key tribute to those shot by the police on Danziger Bridge while trying to escape Hurricane Katrina....
...Ronnie Biggs, who has died at the age of 84, was a small-time villain who was thrust by fate to the pinnacle of his profession....
...The bridge was slinky – sax harmonised with guitar – there was a change of key, and Potter’s solo built inexorably over the chatter of Smith’s snare....
...… In Perth, I meet Major Ronnie Proctor, a veteran of the real Black Watch....
...Tension grew, the backbeat tightened, and then an organ swell – alas a synthesised sound – cued the relaxing counterpoint of a harmonically rich bridge....
...Me Walking over Chalk Farm Bridge On my way to the tube station. A new father – slightly light-headed With the lack of sleep and the novelty....
...With pulse established, sax and guitar delivered the hard-edged, close-argued chromatics of high-tech fusion, modulated to a swirly bridge and then returned to base in a blur of notes....
...CodeFive, Robinson’s band, cram in the detail, seguing from blues-soaked riffs to a sharp-moving bridge, splitting into fragments and then reconvening....
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