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...Bassist Clark Summers wove counterpoint into Watts’s sensitive polyrhythmic rumble. And on piano and organ Stu Mindeman roamed from delicate impressionism to gospel jazz....
...“Star of Wonder” was as crisp as a frosty winter’s night, while a delve into the Elling back catalogue included “The Waking” and a feature for Clark Sommers on bass....
...This time she takes shoe designer Blahnik’s colourful life story – he was born on a banana plantation and designed shoes for Ossie Clark in the 1960s – and blends it with the narrative of “The Elves and...
...The election becomes a beauty contest – to choose the prospective president’s wife (shades of Carla Bruni) – while his running mate is satirised as a nonentity (shades of Dan Quayle)....
...France’s first lady Carla Bruni raised eyebrows in July when she sang about her husband Nicolas Sarkozy on her album Comme Si De Rien N’Était, describing the President of the French Republic as deadlier...
...pages Carla Del Ponte’s memoir of her stints as chief prosecutor of war criminals in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia is inspired by fury....
...Grown-up, joined up, but on the cusp of Armageddon: Andrew Clark picks the best classical CDs and DVDs of 2007 1....
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