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...Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin were dressed from head to toe in angelic white. They stood in a white structure that stretched in a rectangle across the width of the stage....
...Gyula Orendt’s Oronte is arrestingly honey-toned and seductive, while Luca Tittoto’s Créon underpins everything with his velvety, authoritative bass....
...The first category starts with the most important pieces of American vernacular of all — blue jeans and T-shirts — and extends to everything from Timberland and Red Wing boots, Carhartt canvas jackets, Woolrich...
...Sophie Lücke does remarkable things to her double bass....
...Alfred Walker sings potently as the flighty, morally challenged monarch, though a metallic edge sometimes detracts from his imposing bass....
...Pros will take to the hard courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens....
...I half-expected him to be wearing chef’s whites, but he’s in jeans and a grey-blue jumper, his broad smile instantly recognisable. I apologise for being early. “I’m always early too,” he says....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Some sea bass....
...Gone are the thrashing drums, wah-wah guitars and Funkadelic bass lines that dominated his music when he “retired” in 1975. The stripped-down themes that bordered on abstraction are also no more....
...If you are up for a snack, don’t miss the oyster happy hour, or for a proper meal the striped bass with asparagus is a delight. Food is prepared by executive chef Ian Anderson....
...I had dropped into the Leeds City Museum on Cookridge Street, where the main gallery reverberated to the sound of “The Jean Genie” by David Bowie, this in commemoration of a gig Bowie played 50 years ago...
...The fleshed-out stabs of “Cosmic Intercourse” bounce with beats crafted by drummer Chris Dave, and “Humanity” introduces a trace of walking bass swing....
...The simple lines of “Jean Pierre” drew audience shouts and the trumpet soloed on cue. But then drums switched to a broken-beat march and the grimy single-note riff of “Trip Trap” shook the house....
...Instead of the aprons, though, I opted for blue leopard-print drainpipe jeans, which I accessorised with a studded belt and blue baseball boots, topped with a pink string vest....
...A highlight for early April will be at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where the exceptional artistic collaboration between Andy Warhol and the much younger Jean-Michel Basquiat is celebrated in Basquiat...
...Bisous — Jean” (“You are irreplaceable because you are different”)....
...The trio go under the pseudonymous names of Mephisto (guitar, bass, drums), Ostron (keyboards, drums) and Artiya’il (vocals)....
...A live band provides the entertainment, but the cinematic views are theatre enough for sipping champagne and sampling the Mediterranean fare created by Jean-Philippe Blondet of Alain Ducasse’s eponymous...
...As inelegant acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal’s thudding, bludgeoning bass registers....
...After that introduction, it plunges into “Analog Bedoui”, dominated by a squelchy bass synthesiser pattern with more wailing artificial reeds, muezzin-style vocals and the hint of street chatter at the edges...
...Right next to The Bass, at 2200 Liberty Avenue, is the Miami City Ballet....
...There was a tough call to make in choosing which of the penultimate acts to see: up-and-coming producer Sherelle or drum and bass legend LTJ Bukem, returning to the festival two years after its inaugural...
...opt for a pair of slim chino shorts that finish well above the knee and team with some high-quality white socks (not tube or sports) and a pair of classic penny loafers from the original and the best, GH Bass...
...The magnificent Bass, one of Miami Beach’s Art Deco gems; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, showing international 20th- and 21st-century work with a strong emphasis on serving the diverse communities of Miami-Dade...
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