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...Berruga’s resignation was followed by exits of executives including chief investment officer Jon Maier, chief operating officer John Belanger and head of finance Ronnie Riven....
...Guitarist John Scofield, one-time sideman to Miles Davis and with credits as long as your arm, applied his steely jazz eye to a bar-room repertoire and joyously rekindled the passion of his formative years...
...Pérez, Panama-raised but long based in New York, is the trio’s lead composer; bassist John Patitucci is his foil. And it was their second-guessing empathy that held centre stage....
...His boss John Bingham was no mean thriller writer himself....
...The evening finished with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things”, a jazz standard famously covered by John Coltrane, and now the standout track on Purest Form, Francies’s most recent release....
...Maier left Global X after the ousting of former chief executive Luis Berruga alongside chief operating officer John Belanger and head of finance Ronnie Riven....
...We duly meet the Cornwells: an inscrutable mother, Olive, and brutish confidence trickster father, Ronnie....
...Unusually, their backing band consisted of three middle-class white rock musicians, Ronnie Robot (bass), Neil Cloud (drums) and Trevor Rabin (guitar)....
...Elton John pounds out the piano honky-tonk on “Get Close” and “Live by the Sword”....
...What followed would be a stellar, hugely influential career that now brings him to his latest muse: John le Carré....
...I asked Ronnie Hughes, a former skipper I know, how he would describe the contemporary culture of the place. “Tourism,” he said. “Cafés.” Yet these villages, unlike many others, are doing well....
...Many of English football’s biggest moments of the last half century were voiced, impossibly mellifluously, by John Motson....
...Battersea Park in Concert A long weekend of concerts spanning everything from jazz to West End hits in the south-west London park; last year’s event included the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Ronnie...
...At Ronnie Scott’s, across two virtually uninterrupted sets, they exhibited the compressed energy of a band on the road....
...The subtle weave that Joe Lovano’s Trio Tapestry created on their two ECM albums made for a demanding and at times exhilarating second-house set at Ronnie Scott’s....
...Brandee Younger is the go-to harpist of her generation, with credits ranging from veteran saxophonist Pharoah Sanders to John Legend, Drake and drummer/producer Makaya McCraven....
...Job moves John Allan is to step down as chair of UK housebuilder Barratt Developments following allegations of misconduct by the former CBI president....
...Like John le Carré’s George Smiley, Merrick’s mild exterior conceals a steely determination....
...Here too, or hereabout, was where the poet John Dryden was almost murdered by rogues hired by the Earl of Rochester in 1679....
...He makes a great Elvis: he looks the part, moves well and, perhaps wisely, lets country star Ronnie McDowell do the singing....
...The two sax players were regulars; pianist John Foster had just joined and remains relatively unknown; and Jon Faddis, still in his late teens, delivers trumpet fireworks....
...John Coltrane’s “Equinox” was the theme, played by Wilkins with a dry, focused tone and a hint of breath....
...At 17, he got his big break when he was cast as a young soldier in the 1958 war film Dunkirk alongside Richard Attenborough, John Mills and Bernard Lee....
...It’s sometimes said that David Cornwell, known to his millions of readers across the world as John le Carré, was his droll, studiously observant, dry-eyed anti-hero George Smiley: “small, podgy and at best...
...“My sister was a very sociable person and a good conversationalist and when she first went to her home we told them Ronnie needs people around....
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