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...The gorgeous ballad interlude with echoes of Strayhorn and Monk stood out....
...The thick brushstrokes applied directly to paper in Domenico Tintoretto’s “The Martyrdom of St Stephen” (1594), a stunning oil sketch for an altarpiece at San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, are so free that the...
...Allan Monks, UK economist at JPMorgan, said this was alarming and would prompt the BoE to raise interest rates further....
...“Colin should have been a monk,” says the social historian and writer, Angus Calder, “studying, writing, following the natural order of the seasons.”...
...Stephen Mayes, his longtime friend and executive director of the Tim Hetherington Trust, recalls the first time he encountered Tim’s work....
...Benanti is a Franciscan monk who lives in a spartan monastery he shares with four other friars perched above a tiny Roman church....
...That is less than half the estimated fortune of Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman....
...He began the second set on amplified acoustic guitar with an angular campfire reading of Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times”....
...Gerontologist Emi Kiyota, who has advised on building communities for retired monks in Bhutan, spoke about the need to create homes for seniors without segregating them....
...The first CD opens with “Smoking Gun”, a rewrite of a tune by Thelonious Monk, first heard on Stephens’s 2007 debut album The Timeless Now....
...Its Sleep Stories are narrated by the likes of Stephen Fry and Matthew McConaughey, while packages include exclusive music tracks for relaxation and guided videos on mindful movement....
...Neil Charles was impressively firm on bass, Stephen Davis eloquent on drums. Free jazz followed walking-bass swing, there were all manner of duets, and solos for all....
...Stephen Sondheim once scoffed at fellow composer Philip Glass for writing an opera in Sanskrit, because what could be more pretentious, right?...
...Coltrane’s “Blue Train” was a warm-up cruise, a Monk medley smoothed out the edges and, in the second half, “A Night in Tunisia” was uplifted by Gerald Cleaver’s drum solo....
...At one moment of high drama, monk-frightening hounds barking through Canterbury Cathedral, artificers stripping the place of bejewelled relics including the silver cap enclosing what is said to be Thomas...
...Allan Monks: The Bank of England would feel comfortable cutting to -0.5 per cent if it needed to....
...In the series, Stephen Graham plays Joseph, a recovering alcoholic who travels from Liverpool to Ireland, where he rediscovers disturbing memories of his childhood....
...The monks were replaced by a different order, the Cistercians, but vocations plummeted and just one solitary octogenarian monk, Don Ignazio, remains....
...From about 1300, the monks of Furness Abbey had been scouring the hills for iron and felling woods for charcoal....
...Armenian monks live in the same monastery on the beautiful Isla San Lazzaro to this day, serving up fine food and immersing themselves in a library of ancient manuscripts....
...The set ends with Barron, unaccompanied, merging the angles and vagaries of Thelonious Monk’s “Reflections” into the smoother contours of his own aesthetic....
...Will Stephen Hough be wearing a hat?...
...The percussive attack reflects elements of both Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner, but these are just part of Barth’s broad palette of influences....
...Stephen King, HSBC Very little change but, again, it’s all contingent on Brexit....
...He’s “nervous, understated, sharp and shy: a warrior-monk, according to one French official who’s known him for 20 years”. (Bloomberg). Email: mehreen.khan@ft.com Twitter: @mehreenkhn...
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