Hints and tips:
...“Bags’ Groove”, a blues written by Milt Jackson, was introduced as “a little shuffle”....
...This April, The Sympathizer becomes an HBO mini-series starring Robert Downey Jr....
...Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who makes her debut as director of the highbrow Edinburgh International Festival, looks to Martin Luther King Jr for inspiration....
...JR: There are three things. The first of them, obviously, is it’s a recognition that [Weta founder and Lord of the Rings director] Peter Jackson was a genius, when you go back nearly 30 years ago....
...Gifted veteran Jackson Silva (Clifton Collins Jr) has had his share in a long career, one that seems to be winding down before two arrivals....
...Inside, Chief Joseph Olaitan Adenuga Jr, better known as the rapper Skepta, explains that he doesn’t mind the inevitable £80 parking fine. What’s it like driving a Rolls, anyway?...
...Off the court, he was a civil-rights leader who marched on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr. and had an interminable competitive spirit and humour to boot....
...For others, he is Jackson Lamb, the irascible spymaster in Mick Herron’s hugely popular Slough House series....
...Jackson HouldingUmm, not very, but a bit. Leo HouldingWas it — were you scared at all? Jackson HouldingNo....
...The owner, Willy Bogner Jr, worked as a cameraman for a few of the Jimmy Bond movies, which is why Moore was often wearing their sportswear.” Sean Scully, painter “Picasso’s Child with a Dove....
...The best one Atkins was given was when the comedian Ronnie Barker told her to look credible, not noticeable....
...The reissue campaign includes a remix of their 1981 song “Can You Feel It” with sampled speeches by Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama....
...Highlights include a gospel duet between Mavis Staples and Mahalia Jackson, Sly Stone show-stealing with a rasping, electric “Everyday People”....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Today, central bankers are gathering for their big annual meeting that usually takes place in Jackson Hole....
...I started to do portraits of people who had influenced me – everyone from Michael Jackson to Mozart to Marley. They sold, and the grocery money started to come in....
...of populist Andrew Jackson....
...Tony Jackson and Andrew Hill...
...“I started to think you can call this art if you want to,” he says, just “not in Jackson, Mississippi — you got to get to New York to call this art.”...
...(FT) March in Washington Rev Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders will mark the 57th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday....
...Sunday”, in March 1965, as he and around 600 protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to advocate for their voting rights and to express their anger at the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson...
...We asked Peter Jackson to help us, and he put the concert together and it’s incredible....
...When John D Rockefeller Jr discreetly began spending the inheritance from his billionaire father in the 1920s, his intentions seemed noble....
...“We are in a moment of a bit of a whirlwind,” said D’atra Jackson, BYP100’s national director, who lives in North Carolina....
...Her delicately cooked, immaculately presented food makes the average meal look like it was plated by Jackson Pollock....
...Mr Mercuriadis said 82 per cent of the income generated by Stax drummer Al Jackson Jr’s 1,850-song catalogue was derived from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”, while other well-known songs including Booker...
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