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...One of my earliest style memories is, as a 12-year-old, being dragged into a shop with my grandfather, who was determined to find something that I considered to be the height of anti-fashion: a dark brown...
...(Co-founders Ronnie Scott and Pete King fought union restrictions that barred US jazz musicians from attaining work permits in the UK.)...
...On a shelf overhead there are historic empty bottles of Shepherd Neame ales such as Early Bird and Bonnie Brown Ale....
...Peck uses music by Aaron Copland and collaborates with Choctaw-Cherokee painter and sculptor Jeffrey Gibson: celebrating American culture in all its finest forms....
...“Brown Sugar”, with its highly cancellable lyrics about race and sex, has been ditched from their tour set lists. “Out of Time” has taken its place, a belated live debut for the 1966 song....
...Entire buildings had been destroyed, his once-verdant tropical paradise had turned brown as palm trees and shrubs were ripped from the earth and a hot tub was flung some 30 metres into the air....
...The Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander billed his week-long Ronnie Scott’s residency as the “Harlem-Kingston Express”....
...“Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell” came next, with vocalist John Winfield delivering the William Blake words with a gruffed-up blues-rock shout....
...“We don’t want to bore the pants off people,” says Ronnie Wood, laughing....
...The newly published Brown to Green Report, partially funded by the World Bank, concluded that the country’s response to climate change is one of the worst among the G20 countries....
...Pianist Vernell Brown’s solo upped the ante with flowing lines and a strong left hand; then Garrett’s two-note riff cued percussionist Rudy Bird to shine....
...The band’s first recordings document Brown and his musicians experimenting in the studio, shifting the beat, and replacing their leader’s vocals with odd riffs and solos....
...In support, bassist Peter Slavov was a pitch-perfect foundation for Otis Brown III’s cymbal-driven swing and snare-drum chatter....
...Swedish telecoms company Ericsson has nominated Ronnie Leten as its new chairman following the decision by Leif Johansson to step down after criticism from activist investors....
...Big Bill Broonzy’s depiction of racism, “Black, Brown and White”, was followed by the love-at-first-sight froth of “The Trolley Song”....
...The finale was “Umteyo”, a surging feature for Brown supported by simple pedal-point piano and bass and a single, precisely articulated Akinmusire squelch played on every beat of the bar....
...Drummer Jason Brown deftly locked into DeFrancesco’s undertow of organ-pedal bass, saxophonist Troy Roberts spun soulful lines with a personal voice and guitarist Dan Wilson’s quick-fire lines and warmly...
...The repertoire was soul-derived — from Marvin Gaye and Prince to Pharrell Williams and James Brown, with “We Are Family” as an encore-winning set closer....
...Jazz musicians with high-end commercial credits playing creatively are a regular treat at Ronnie Scott’s; ones promising to echo the universal beat of freedom and solidarity are somewhat rarer....
...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.”...
...deliver their mix of songbook standards and in-style originals with the fine-tuned interplay of long-term collaborators — their interlocking CVs range from Björk and James Taylor to John Scofield and James Brown...
...A decade later, trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach’s quintet used “Cherokee” to expand the bebop vocabulary and make the first recording of a drum solo based on a tune’s melody....
...I followed [bassist] Ray Brown around like a lost puppy for years.”...
...Having turned professional in 2011, Eubank Jr is now back home in Brighton and trains with Ronnie Davies, the legendary cornerman who also worked with his father....
...Ann, David’s first wife, called Ronnie “the only really evil person I ever met”....
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