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...This is where you’ll find Lewis Capaldi and Joe Jonas having a late-night sing-song round the piano, and walls hung with Gilbert & George works loaned by the pub’s high-net-worth regulars....
...“Early”, the opener, captures a sense of awakening with sleepy sax melodies, a swirly pulse and a weave of piano and vibes....
...Courtesy of its eponymous features, the piano bar sees most of the action....
...After that, both spoke to and joked with the audience, piano-bar style, introducing backstories to the music....
...Cold-weather imbibing is better in the basement, at Hijos de Tomás, Thompson’s lively piano bar and speakeasy....
...(No offence to Tchaikovsky, but I’m an aficionado of Schubert’s piano pieces; Natali, a talented pianist, prefers Chopin.) At Code Red DC, the theme is the Prohibition era....
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...But speculating about the subject of “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”, a quietly venomous piano assassination, misses the point....
...A gigantic sharp-edged wing — an actual dented wing from a military aircraft, relic of wartime disaster — juts out menacingly, sorrowfully, across the grand piano nobile gallery....
...Her father Emil was a piano teacher and church organist. But seeing the trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Gerry Mulligan play in a bar in San Francisco in the early 1950s proved a pivotal moment....
...From the first bars of Loyle Carner’s birthday show at London’s Royal Albert Hall it was clear that the rapper was not going to be outdone by the stately setting....
...Becker: A Boy’s Head In his 1963 poem “A Boy’s Head”, Czech poet Miroslav Holub sifts through the imaginary contents of a child’s mind, from spaceships and bumblebees to “a project for doing away with piano...
...There’s a room dedicated to watches, the Sala degli Orologi; the first-floor lobby is dedicated to music, with an antique grand piano showcased under yet more soaring ceilings....
...It runs classes – from classical piano to DJing – and hosts pop-up performances....
...Although Giddens gets to the essence of classic vocal styles, she brings a host of other influences into the mix, sometimes within the space of a few bars....
...A wood-burning fire (there is no central heating) warms the room with its long kitchen table, piano and blue-grey flagstone floor....
...“It’s a twelve-bar blues that can go anywhere,” said McBride. “And that’s what we’re going to do.”...
...He had been raised as a secular Jew — he says he had a “lip-sync bar mitzvah” — and he decided to begin studying Hebrew....
...And in any case, a glass box with a stone floor is no place for a piano of this calibre....
...However many restaurants are on offer — the Queen Anne has 14, including a steakhouse, a Japanese and an Indian, as well as a dozen bars — it will not be enough....
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...Afterwards, you can have a drink in the adjoining bar under Margate resident Tracey Emin’s neon More Love sign....
...Our houses reflect who we are, after all, and pianos provide decoration as well as pleasure. Spaces such as games rooms need to earn their keep, but I love the way they can be multipurpose....
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