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...During its heyday, Baldwin’s Saint-Paul home was a sanctuary for artists — especially black Americans in the twilight of their lives, from Miles Davis to Josephine Baker....
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
...A fictional recording session in “Luanda-Kinshasa” (2013) imagines what would have happened if Miles Davis had discovered Afrobeat....
...(His own nickname, “The Bull”, was well earned and it made perfect sense to see him compete, years later, in Valencia’s Plaza de Toros in a Davis Cup tie.)...
...The US influence remained — the then new ideas of Mingus, Coltrane, and Gil Evans’s work with Miles Davis resonate strongly throughout — and old and new generations combined....
...“It’s not that little,” mumbles a quickly recovering Stan....
...The festival closes with the world premiere of Stan & Ollie, with Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy....
...There’s the hillside golf course, with cowbells, wildflowers and birdsong, and three new Davis-Cup-ready tennis courts (two indoors and one outside), which hope to attract the likes of Stan Wawrinka and...
...Omar Davis, also based in London, becomes head of global mining. Brunswick Group, the international public relations firm, made two new hires last week at the partner level....
...Clarke was just 18 when he joined Horace Silver’s band; stints with Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz followed: “They treated me real nice”....
...On paper, the star turn was drummer Billy Hart, a high-profile veteran who played with Miles Davis and Stan Getz and was a key member of Herbie Hancock’s early 1970s transitional jazz-to-funk band Mwandishi...
...Both musicians played with Miles Davis in the early 1980s, and, we were told, bassist Tom Kennedy and drummer Dave Weckl teamed up as 13-year-olds....
...Stan Getz Quartet Swiss Radio Days (T@B)...
...(I am 100 per cent in the Stan Fischer camp on this.) Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Not much for bulk of year....
...But his influences remained quintessentially American – trumpeters Miles Davis and Don Cherry, for example, and funk avant-gardists Defunkt, who made a strong impression at an Oslo gig. “Wow....
...Anybody with an ear for a tune and a spring in their step could appreciate the virtuosity of performers such as Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson, as they span seamless variations on the American songbook....
...The encore was a Davis fusion medley led by “In a Silent Way”....
...Science: The Definitive Visual Guide Edited by Adam Hart-Davis Dorling Kindersley, £30 Hart-Davis and the DK team have produced the ultimate coffee-table – sorry, highly illustrated – book about science...
...Mr Sullivan becomes the latest high-profile casualty of the credit crisis, which has already claimed the jobs of Chuck Prince, Citigroup’s chairman and chief executive, and Stan O’Neal, his opposite number...
...Appearing before the House oversight and government reform committee, Angelo Mozilo, chief executive of Countrywide, the largest US mortgage lender, Stan O’Neal, former chief executive of Merrill Lynch,...
...Davis, an Arizona based fund management firm, will make a long-term investment of $1.2bn....
...Merrill Lynch thanked chief executive Stan O’Neal for “leading a major transformation” when he was jettisoned last autumn....
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