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...Taken overall, the album is a compelling showcase for Chambers’ multiple skills The album opens with the New York rhythm section’s fluent piano-trio cover of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin’s “This is New”....
...We see the swift thinking but also the effort as, spying a lifeline in Dwane Walcott’s gentle, reserved Mitch, she slips into coy, flirtatious mode; we see the determination, but also the fear, as she squares...
...The harp, even one string, just sounds beautiful on its own, just, like, plucked in a gentle way....
...The words equally apply to Kurt Elling’s thrilling second-house gig....
...“A lot of the pieces we’ve noticed coming through are quite gentle and soft, quite sombre in tone,” concludes Dennis....
...This is followed by another side of Lanegan: the gentle, reflective “Apples from a Tree”, sung against the rapid picking of acoustic guitars....
...The gentle, textured cadences of “Born to Trouble” come next, created by Mehldau alone and then a voice-led quartet deliver spacious twiddles on “Striving After Wind”....
...So allegedly proclaimed Kurt Eisner, theatre critic and journalist, once jailed for treason, now the self-appointed prime minister of the Free State of Bavaria....
...First seen in the 1937 romp Way Out West, the best loved of all Laurel and Hardy routines begins with a gentle sway in place beside a soundstage saloon....
...Lambchop FLOTUS (City Slang) “Shake the cobwebs free,” Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner sings in a curious voice — one fed through pitch-correcting software in the newfangled style of the modern electronic crooner...
...Slideshow photographs: Kurt Tong...
...But much of the music tonight was merely nice, an impulse that reached its climax with a soothing version of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box”, Ásgeir turning Kurt Cobain’s perverse howls into a gentle lullaby...
...This unlikely pilgrimage serves as the plot of Joyce’s gentle but excellent debut novel....
...An ovation coaxed a second, a gentle elegy with a thumping crescendo in the middle. Copenhagen Jazz Festival ends July 15. www.jazz.dk...
...It soon dawned on the foreign policy adviser that LBJ had confused him with the then West German chancellor Kurt Kiesinger....
...Brushed drums gave the songs a gentle sashaying rhythm, the bass was a calm thrum, piano and guitars settled against one another like old friends....
...Miteki Kudo, an unsung Paris Opéra hero, brings gentle grace to her encounter with Benjamin Pech....
...Kurt Streit remains the Idomeneo of choice, despatching “Fuor del mar” with invigorating intensity....
...A kind of comedy-western-gothic, it blends the darkness of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy with the laconic, intelligent humour of Kurt Vonnegut....
...The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell, translated by Laurie Thompson, Harvill Secker, RRP£17.99, 384 pages Twenty years after the appearance of his first book featuring dour Swedish detective Kurt Wallander...
...Exciting rich, complex fruit but with good acidity underneath. 13% £17.95 Berry Bros Kurt Hain, Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Riesling trocken 2009 Mosel New style dry German with real intensity....
...The voice appeals as much as the gentle manner; ornamentation is cannily introduced; the aspiration is unfortunate....
...That was pretty much the only drama of the evening, for the Concerto and the Second Symphony are rather gentle affairs....
...A week after our interview, I put some of my thoughts about Miegel’s persona to Kurt Biedenkopf....
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