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Pembroke Dock energy project benefits 'outweigh' heritage loss

BBC News 18 May 2021

The project, part of the Swansea Bay City Deal, will enable technology developers to test marine energy devices in the Milford Haven estuary. However the plans to fill and cover Grade-II listed slipways, a graving dock and a timber pond used for shipbuilding have been described as "catastrophic" for the area's heritage.

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Music Is A Time Machine: Sons of Kemet Interviewed

The Quietus 12 May 2021

All band portraits by Udoma Janssen. In The Last Angel Of History, John Akomfrah’s experimental documentary released in 1996, the narrator is a “badboy scavenger poet-figure” known as the Data Thief ... “I like that idea that it's not just what's on the surface ... “Milford Graves [the American jazz drummer and researcher] based his life research on this.

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Mountain jazz festivals return alongside in-person gigs in Denver

Denver Post 04 May 2021

“Sacred Ceremonies” consists of three CDs, featuring collaborations with drummer Milford Graves and bassist Bill Laswell, in duo and trio configurations with the trumpeter. The performances with Graves, who died in February of this year, are particularly spirited and ...

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A Visit with Dawoud Bey in the Place of His Pictures

Vanity Fair 22 Apr 2021

Its wide stoop has a vantage onto a lively swath of Fulton Street, the destination and origin of much of its foot traffic ... A Girl with a Knife Nosepin, Brooklyn, NY, 1990 ... “You can’t fake that ... Born David Edward Smikle and raised in Jamaica, Queens, Bey started out as an aspiring drummer, studying with his neighbor, the jazz pioneer Milford Graves ... — .

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The Month In Jazz – April 2021

Stereogum 21 Apr 2021

02 Jason Moran/Milford Graves - "Seventh". Graves / Moran - Live at Big Ears by Jason Moran / Milford Graves. Pianist Jason Moran’s second release of 2021 is a tribute to drummer Milford Graves, who died earlier this year ... Bill Laswell and Milford Graves, plus a disc of trio work.

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Oneonta cross-country falls to Windsor, 29-27

The Daily Star 31 Mar 2021

MORRIS 1, MILFORD 0. The Morris girls soccer team scored an early goal to top visiting Milford, 1-0 on Tuesday, March 30. Morris’ Carissa Richards scored with 7.42 minutes remaining in the first half on a Mackenzie Graves cross to give the Mustang’s the lead. Milford outshot Morris 8-7 on the game ... Leanna West made six saves for Milford ... Milford ….

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Milford Graves obituary

The Guardian 21 Mar 2021

... different and difficult things at the same time, and Milford Graves, who has died aged 79, extended that agility to just about everything he did in his polymathic life.

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Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

The Quietus 24 Feb 2021

Leila Bordreuil. These days, I am mostly sat at my desk watching two great tits hack away at the fat balls in the feeder, while Philip next door water pistols the squirrels and cats ... One of the first I’d like to feel terrified by is Senyawa ... Here at Rum Music I’m also extremely saddened to hear of the deaths of Ghédalia Tazartès and Milford Graves ... II.

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Milford Graves, singular drummer and polymath, dies at 79

The Philadelphia Tribune 22 Feb 2021

By the time Milford Graves took up the jazz drum kit, in his early 20s, he had spent years playing timbales in Afro-Latin groups ... “In the cosmos, everything — planets — they’re all in motion,” Graves said in “Milford Graves Full Mantis,” a 2018 documentary film directed by his longtime student Jake Meginsky ... Milford Robert Graves was born on Aug.

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A Fireside Chat with Milford Graves

All About Jazz 16 Feb 2021

... name they give this music, you are a fan of Milford Graves.

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Milford Graves: the pioneering drummer whose naturalistic rhythms freed up jazz

The Guardian 14 Feb 2021

Herbalism, biology, martial arts and sculpture informed Graves’s unique style, which drove the new music and made sophistication from jazz’s deepest origins Milford Graves ... The American drummer Milford Graves, ...

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Milford Graves: jazz drummer dies aged 79

The Observer 14 Feb 2021

The pioneering free jazz drummer Milford Graves, who was credited with transforming the role from metronome to musician, has died aged 79, NPR has confirmed ... Milford Graves ... Milford Graves Full Mantis review – cutting-edge drums and terrific storytelling ... Also in 2018, Graves was the subject of a documentary, Milford Graves Full Mantis.

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The Derma Co eyes Rs 100 cr revenue run rate by FY22

Yahoo Daily News 14 Feb 2021

Read full article. 14 February 2021, 2.19 pm·2-min read. New Delhi, Feb 14 (PTI) The Derma Co, part of Honasa Consumer Pvt Ltd (HCPL) that also owns the Mamaearth brand, aims to clock a revenue run rate of Rs 100 crore by March 2022 as it expands its presence across online and offline retail in the country ... PTI SR HRS hrs. TRENDING ... Milford Graves.

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Influential jazz drummer Milford Graves has passed away at 79

NME 13 Feb 2021

Milford Graves, a pioneering jazz drummer most commonly associated with the free jazz movement, has passed away at age 79 ... Over a career spanning more than half a century, Graves performed with many other ensembles, including the Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble and the Milford Graves Latino Quintet.

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How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum

Rollingstone 13 Feb 2021

And at the center of it all, churning with the fury of a whirlpool and dancing across his hand-painted drum kit with the control and flair of a flamenco master, was Milford Graves — the percussionist, healer, and interdisciplinary seeker who Zorn had once called ...