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...Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” was the evening’s ballad, opening with a beautiful duet between guitar and double bass....
...A trio of countertenors (Eric Jurenas, plus Key’mon W Murrah and Siman Chung in their debuts) also narrate, and briefly play the Three Kings....
...Elsewhere, “Budo” and “Ray’s Idea”, recorded by Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, respectively, in the late 1940s, develop angular lines while Leonard Bernstein’s “Somewhere” is a beautiful ballad....
...Dudamel might share something of Leonard Bernstein’s theatrical style — as well as Lydia Tár’s admiration for the late, great Claudio Abbado — but little of his enormous ego....
...Website; Directions— Tim Auld, executive editor, HTSI Zapote 70 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QX For all the splendid variety of London’s restaurant scene, finding good Mexican food has long been a struggle...
...Last year’s event drew 12,000 for an evening of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin....
...While she pored over records in her room, Billie Holiday foremost among the favourites, her younger brother Nic was thrumming a bass guitar in his....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...Located one block west of the boardwalk at 21st Street is Collins Park (which surrounds The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum)....
...— by serving rigorously local produce with a light but inventive touch: stone bass tartare with monk’s beard, or Tweed Valley zabuton steak with smoked marrow butter....
...The nearest thing to a ballad, “E.W. — Beautiful People”, is the album’s final track....
...The works sit against a chic art-deco backdrop, newly designed by Thierry W Despont and inspired by the American-style bars that appeared in London and Paris during the 1920s....
...Here it unfolds sensuously over a throb of drums, call and response moans and a feature for Rogers’ bowed bass. ★★★★☆ ‘Tone Poem’ is released by Blue Note...
...Its guiding thread is a story narrated by a young Russian woman named Aneliya, the daughter of a musician reduced to playing cover versions of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake songs in the bars of St Petersburg...
...In her band are her ever-reliable guitarist Gerry Leonard, Jeff Allen on bass and Jamie Edwards on keyboards....
...To begin with, on the opening tracks “K.G.L.W.” and “Automation”, they play a kind of folk-rock, with guitar melodies that are more memorable than the vocal lines....
...One oasis of calm is The Bass museum on 21st Street and Collins Avenue....
...(The band’s other players are Earl Harvin on drums, who lives in Berlin, and the UK-based Dan McKinna on bass.)...
...Its opening track, “Pigeons”, is bookended by knowing references to Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen....
...Also the first of a new series is The Highland Falcon Thief (Macmillan, RRP£6.99) by MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman....
...Days (Whirlwind) is billed as a “darkly dystopian Arabic-infused jazz fantasy”, and indeed it has the air of a paranoid nightclub, Atlas’s trademark microtonal flutter drifting like the smoke in a Herman Leonard...
...Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style (1999) played on the rap group’s martial arts obsession, coming bundled with a limited-edition controller shaped like the Clan’s “W” symbol (which proved deviously un-ergonomic and...
...Transfer Market Kellie Leonard, Nike's first chief of diversity and inclusion, departed the role this week as the company grapples with perceived inequities among its own staff....
...He sits at a huge grand piano on the stage of the Gerald W....
...The bass heaves itself into life as the song lifts into the chorus; lilting violin from Mokrane Adiani gives a hint of an arrangement from Massi’s longtime hero Leonard Cohen....
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