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...Fast, spidery piano came with two-handed thrust, bassist Ivan Taylor held the fort and drummer EJ Strickland delivered a chattering dialogue of bass drum and snare....
...Round on the Links The link was fictional baddies The Master Claudius Silver Villanelle Peter Hook The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) Henry Blofeld J R Hartley Ellen Ripley Penguin Classic...
...“Dat Feelin’” features Glasper’s trademark piano voicings and peaks with Marcus Strickland’s tenor sax; “Atlanta, Texas” is a gritty mood-piece. In all, the recording’s cast approaches 50....
...He bubbled and fizzed from the outset as the band transformed N*E*R*D’s punk-funk into light-touch, funky jazz....
...Strickland stuck mostly to tenor sax and delivered his compositions in clumps of three....
...For the next 90 minutes, Dave and his quartet juxtaposed, jumbled up and bent out of shape half a century of jazz, funk and R&B without pause for breath....
...His falsetto struggles to be heard over the band, yet his presentation has none of the weediness of some R&B, where actual soppiness is directly proportional to supposed braggadocio....
...Kevin R. McNally’s Claudius never makes his mark on the action, and Penelope Wilton is so unqueenly as Gertrude that my companion described her as “like an HR manager at Marks & Spencer”....
...But even if Mr DeWine could afford to blitz all the channels in the few remaining days of campaigning, the state of Ohio seems almost certain to go Democrat by embracing Mr Brown as well as Ted Strickland...
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