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...And in 1960, she also started performing in a duo with the bassist Steve Swallow, whom she would later marry. (She was married three times.)...
...The era produced some extraordinary film music: imagine Anatomy of a Murder without the bristling swing of Duke Ellington....
...But drummer Steve McCraven stuck to the patterns and backbeats of rhythm and blues, losing the gig some fluency though not necessarily lessening the band’s appeal....
...Bush to Jack Welch and Steve Jobs....
...Rough-at-the edges and anarchic, they veered from sublime readings of Ellington and Monk to raucous rabble-rousing and tongue-in-cheek mischief....
...A trademark blues swaggered through a dozen choruses and two lesser-known ballads, “Emily” and Ellington’s “Tonight I Shall Sleep With a Smiling Face”....
...Dave Green on bass and drummer Steve Brown would join on the nod....
...“We have to find a new purpose for these places,” says Steve Stewart, chief executive of Northumberland county council, referring to the county’s south-east. “The alternative is just to abandon them....
...Monk and Ellington are both referenced – “Epistrophy”, “Black and Tan Fantasy”, “Fleurette Africaine” – there is a lovely “Darn the Dream” and “Games” from ex-employer Steve Coleman....
...Throughout the 1970s, Steve Gadd was the drummer of choice for in-the-know New York record producers and arrangers and the name to watch out for on album-sleeve name checks....
...Saxophonist Steve Wilson is a draw in his own right, but the lyrical young vibes player, Warren Wolf, Jr, was an unknown making his first visit to the UK....
...Among a number of first-time novelists are Steve Toltz, whose work, A Fraction of the Whole, is set in Australia and has been commended for an exceptional narrative which manages to entwine both humour and...
...Steve Gray has arranged Ibrahim’s solo pieces for a full orchestra; a piano playing off against deep woodwinds and marabi tubas....
...Yet top-flight Americans also feature: Brad Mehldau, Steve Grossman and Wallace Roney, in the last year or so. “I don’t like jazz in compartments,” says owner-programmer, Stéphane Portet....
...The Latin-tinged “Suddenly” and Ellington’s “In a Mellow Tone” suffered, and though an unaccompanied, dark-toned rhapsodic ballad promised much, Tyner called a halt....
...Latin jazz, intense swing and a sensuous slow jazz jam were all thrown into the pot, and fragments of Monk and Ellington emerged from the steam....
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