Hints and tips:
...Dawn’s (Helena Wilson) assertion that she is “one of the good guys” comes tinged with shaky defiance. Misha’s (Faith Omole) upbeat show looks hollow. Uncomfortable doesn’t begin to describe it....
...Wilson wrote in 1987 for the Daily Mail that to go on holiday now with Kim Philby was like going on holiday with Goebbels when we were at war with Germany....
...boycotts, sit-ins, and demonstrations, had his first meetings with key figures in the civil rights movement like Rosa Parks and King Jr, and joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, led by Ella...
...Sam Cooke, Dinah Washington, Elkie Brooks and Diana Krall’s neatly faithful covers worked, and “Cry Me a River” was an obvious port of call for beehive-haired 1980s retro-soul star Mari Wilson....
...The short, humorous duet Ella, created by Ailey director Robert Battle, was followed by the company’s signature hit, Alvin Ailey’s 1960 Revelations....
...It’s all too tempting to “do” a Bessie Smith or an Ella Fitzgerald, and come across with a bad cover version....
...Abelardo Morell was assisted by Ella Naef from the Wilson Centre for Photography, London....
...Soon after the song’s release in 1968 an American soul singer by the name of Spanky Wilson released a blistering cover, the riff played by a super-tight horn section as Wilson’s voice soars and hollers....
...John Wilson Orchestra Cole Porter in Hollywood (Warner Classics) Don’t throw out Ella Fitzgerald’s Cole Porter songbooks yet, but here is a very different take on these popular classics....
...The exhibition opens with “Homage to Manet” (1909) by William Orpen, which shows a group of early 20th-century artists and critics, including Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Sickert, gathered around a table...
...Spookily, his granddaughter Ella was preparing for her debut as a model for New York Fashion Week, ready to plunge into the world of Miley Cyrus and her erotic pineapples....
...Why, Hello Ella! Hello there, Count Basie! Hello Hoagy! (Hoagy is apparently short for Hoagland.)...
...Other amateur night discoveries anointed by that exacting crowd included Billie Holiday, Jackie Wilson and Leslie Uggams....
...The festival opens with a multi-vocalist tribute to Ella Fitzgerald at Royal Festival Hall on Friday....
...Ward’s achievement, like August Wilson at his best, is to keep these ideas firmly connected to people, rather than just being rhetorical positions loaded on to fleshly vehicles....
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