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...Guitarist John McLean delivered dense voicings, jazz-steeped lines and hints of country and the blues. Bassist Clark Summers wove counterpoint into Watts’s sensitive polyrhythmic rumble....
...“Late Night Willie” featured stinging John McLean guitar, psychedelic organ from Stu Mindeman and powerhouse drums....
...Elling, like many, sees Sinatra as part of the jazz vocal tradition and points out that John Coltrane admired Sinatra’s phrasing and time....
...Here they sensitively interpret new arrangements and gain heft from such heavyweight guests as warmhearted and on-form vocalist Kurt Elling, trumpeter Randy Brecker gently reading John Coltrane’s “Dear Lord...
...Hunter plays bass, rhythm and lead simultaneously, brilliant at each, and Elling has a vocal range and panache to match....
...Elling’s great strength is his taste, technique and control....
...John Cleary’s blues-drenched vocal delivery and the rolling eccentricity of his piano playing had earthy overtones....
...John Simm, a world away from his best- known television roles in Life On Mars and most recently Doctor Who, fashions a character who is prim and precise even when his moves seem fidgety; his Elling reminds...
...Having spent months as Sam Tyler in Life on Mars, grappling with the giant ego and unsavoury habits of DCI Gene Hunt, John Simm now finds himself in another oddball partnership....
...LEONARDO’S LOST ROBOTS by Mark Elling Rosheim Springer ₤23, 188 pages Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by automata and sketches of robotic mechanisms are spread through his notebooks....
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