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...They met in 1964, along with activist Malcolm X and the singer Sam Cooke, after the heavyweight had dethroned Sonny Liston as world champion....
...For most of the film, Damon’s character, the voracious basketball talent scout Sonny Vaccaro, who is hell-bent on signing Michael Jordan, wears a sensible pair of brown penny loafers and a variety of textured...
...Drummer and composer Sam Jesson, a key figure on the London jazz scene, leads the 28°-50° Vintage Piano Trio, who on Thursday evenings play their own takes on legendary pieces from Sonny Rollins to Dewey...
...The celebration will also include soul grandee Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr) and American football star Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge). “You mean no one else is coming?” Brown asks, nonplussed....
...“Designer sneakers are the biggest growth area in our business,” says Thom Scherdel, menswear buyer at Browns Fashion....
...Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Cleveland Browns NFL franchise, is exploring a purchase of the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA team, according to Sportico....
...“For the Elders”, a feature for drummer Bruce Cox, name-checked Bird, Dizzy and Sonny and switched from gritty funk to a gliding swing....
...His father liked jazz and James Brown, his mother gospel and Aretha Franklin, his older brothers hardcore funk and Parliament. “There was something different every day,” says Dave....
...Moxon’s in Clapham for button clams, brown crab, dover sole, or my favourite fish of all — unavailable in New York so far as I know — John Dory from the Cornish coast....
...Its lead characters are Cassius Clay, who that evening has beaten Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight boxing championship; Jim Brown, beginning his transition from footballing phenomenon to film actor...
...The 1962-63 world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston often trained to the sound of saxophonist Jimmy Forrest’s “Night Train”, a huge rhythm and blues hit in 1952....
...Each time he returned to his sticks, the band delivered a sequence of stabs with the precision of James Brown’s band when the singer was in his prime....
...Max Gordon died in 1989 and you only have to reel off the names of the artists he hired to play here — Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Miles Davis...
...Cobb was the undemonstrative drummer whose hip, pared-down beats featured on Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue; Pee Wee Ellis helped develop the rhythmic intricacies of funk alongside James Brown....
...The band joined one by one, first with drummer Tony Match on a boogaloo “Sonny” and then trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso on a modern jazz swinger....
...And in the second set, the bossa “Rouge” and the rocky “Brown” contrasted with fine-crafted swing from bassist Ameen Saleem and Quincy Phillips on drums....
...But though his parents decked themselves out as Sonny and Cher, and his in-laws as John and Yoko, Rice-Oxley himself was in no mood for happy hippie antics....
...Everybody knows that growth is in the toilet and you can easily blame that on the price of oil, the euro crisis and Gordon Brown....
...He finished his set with the great Sonny Boy Williamson standard “Help Me”, and then growled his trademark sign-off into the swaying microphone: “It’s too late to stop now!”...
...Father Brown The best clerical detective, who first appears in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), is given a first name twice by GK Chesterton, and on each occasion it is different....
...Though Mr de Martino was from London, he moved north to refine their sound and they dubbed themselves the “Sonny and Cher of Salford Precincts”....
...Sonny Bono, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger all made a successful transition from showbiz to the political spotlight....
...The Sonny Rollins tune “Airegin” is Nigeria spelled backwards, for example. But We Insist! was brazen....
...The team then resubmitted the forms for the four donations, from Mr Siddiqui (£3,334), Sonny Leong, a publisher (£2,000), Songlines (£2,500) and AA Care Homes (£1,500)....
...A growing list lauds both the obvious – Satchmo and Charlie Parker, for example – and the less familiar – Charlie Christian and Clifford Brown....
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