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...Pat Metheny’s recent projects take in tough fusion with his touring bands and an acerbic left-field quartet with trumpeter Cuong Vu, an orchestral project for ECM Records and the technological wizardry of...
...In “In the Warm Rain”, the suite’s penultimate track, Cuong Vu delivers lilting trumpet over roots reggae beats....
...Leader Cuong Vu’s compositions take a left-field track....
...Cuong Vu 4-tet Ballet (Rare Noise) Trumpeter Cuong Vu’s previous release was a spiky, free-styling studio collaboration with guitarist Pat Metheny....
...Nursing a combat wound, Cuong Dinh escaped the fall of Saigon in April 1975 with his wife, Tram, their 10-day-old son and four-year-old daughter....
...“Our fishing boats are wooden and their vessels are steel, so we have no solution to this,” lamented Nguyen Vu, 35. “It’s our traditional fishing area, so we will never give it up.”...
...The inclusion of the trumpet-led Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny, with its aptly titled opening track “Acid Kiss”, rounds out an impressive profile of Metheny at a creative peak....
...Hanson is remarkable, portentous on “An Elephant in Igor’s Yard”, supple and swinging on “Old Friends” and, on “Left Hook”, tight and funky riffing with the equally adroit trumpeter Cuong Vu....
...And Dinh Vu port in Haiphong a further 40 kilometres away is a well-run facility with operating capacity of around 30m tonnes and easy access to the international shipping lanes leading to the US....
...Vu Duc Dam, the chairman of the government office, subsequently confirmed that the government was considering proposals to legalise casinos and sports betting....
...They work overseas in developed countries, but things are different here,’ ” says PwC tax expert Dinh Thi Quynh Van, who served as project co-ordinator....
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