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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
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Description: The composer gives a UK debut to his new 19-piece Copenhagen ensemble.
Phone: 0207254 4097
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All flare but no fire: Django Bates' mangling of Charlie Parker's music was an ordeal
Charlie "Yardbird" Parker might have celebrated his 80th birthday last night if cirrhosis, dropsy, heart disease and drug addiction had not killed him at only 35.
Tragic, but at least it spared that towering genius the ordeal of hearing Django Bates and Evan Parker mark the occasion by mangling his music beyond all recognition.
Pianist Bates, working with bassist Mike Mondesir and drummer Steve Davis, was at his most irritating.
Richly talented yet ever prone to whimsy and childishly eager to shock, he deconstructed Parker classics like Billie's Bounce, Hot House and Scrapple From the Apple by constantly switching from beautifully accurate chord voicings one moment to empty high-energy abstractions, complete with jangling bell-cymbals and strange falsetto cries, the next.
Any creative jazz performer has the right to make a piece sound more like himself than itself, but without taste at work the results recalled those surrealist painters who placed an eye beside an armpit and left no face under the bowler hat.
When Evan Parker joined the trio after the break there was more stylistic unity, for this dedicated free-improv saxophonist never compromises.
"I'd like it taken into account," Bates had jovially pleaded at the outset, "that I've just taken heroin for the first time." If only he had.
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