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...Forget the metaverse: those of us who grew up on The Sims have embraced the “miniverse”, a more soothing and tactile artificial reality....
...“Histoire de Molly” even brought in melodies from Cape Breton....
...McNally became obsessed with its earworm of a melody and gave it a setting that starts like a lost collaboration between Miles Davis and Alice Coltrane, moves through appropriately Protean musical shifts...
...His transcendent melodies wrenched jazz from the tyranny of preset harmony and laid the foundations of a fully improvised music....
...Masekela began with an improvisation around Freddie Hubbard’s original cornet line, all embellishment and no melody, and then, as the piano shifted key, leant down hard into the tune....
...He began with a demonstration of virtuosity on his school recorder, all seabird trills and folk melodies....
...For an encore, Diabaté was joined by Ellis, who at first struck quiet chords, then echoed the melody on guitar and finally sang a delicate paean to the griot tradition....
...Jonathan Coe’s ‘The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim’ (Viking, £12.99) is published on June 3...
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