Take a stroll on Ocean Drive, "the beachfront road lined with legendary hotels," and Lincoln Road, a pedestrian shopping street; dine at Puerto Sagua (700 Collins Avenue; 305-673-1115), a Cuban restaurant that serves "hearty and cheap" food; and the News Cafe (newscafe.com) on Ocean Drive (above), a classy setting, for simple food and people-watching.
It's a classy set - and would have been even better if it had included the ngoni hero Bassekou Kouyaté, who provided the memorable backing for Kassé Mady at his London concert this week.
And I think most of us would--or at least should--take a classy set of legs over that any day.
While Angello dropped a classy set that pulled people out of their comfort zones and into new sounds, we couldn't help but look around and see a whole lotta people totally unawares as to the musical lesson being imparted upon them.
"I do think we're going to have a classier set of ladies, with one exception," she said, in an obvious reference to the Salahis, "who will elevate the show and bring it to a higher standard, because it's pretty low, when you see what New Jersey was all about".
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring music inspired by stars, including works by Jonathan Dove and Thomas Ades, a sensuous depiction of the night by Monteverdi, and a rather classy setting of Twinkle, twinkle little star.
Brandt reveals more of his subjects in a wonderful double portrait of Edith and Osbert Sitwell (1945) occupying a classy ancestral setting, she in a big, witchy black hat that perfectly complements her sharp, seigniorial face.
A no-nonsense, classy set.
(Ethereal but powerful, unhinged but in total command)." Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe referred to the album as a "smartly executed, classy set of songs that's miles away from the hoochie pop being turned out by young female R&B vocalists these days".
It's a classy, exuberant set.
It's a classy, sophisticated set that proves Astatke is still a musical force in his mid 60s.
