Metheny was a child prodigy, jamming with top-flight bands passing through Kansas City before his voice broke, then dropping out of university to teach at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston while he was still in his teens.
The top-flight band boasted Ken Peplowski on woodwinds, Tom Hubbard on bass, Albie Berk on drums, Glenn Drews on trumpet and the marvelous Ted Firth hunched at the piano.
Throughout, the songs of Chicago are aptly woven into action and dialogue and delivered with pop star verve by the cast — whose many strong singers include Katie Nunez and Lisa Valenzuela as Julia's sly handmaidens Lucetta and Bruschetta, respectively — and by the Troubadour's top-flight band.
On a flight with band members from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Omaha, Mr. Carroll reluctantly checked his valuable guitar because he said he had experienced previous problems trying to carry it on flights.
Some of the costs incurred by Perth and Kinross included fireworks (£6,101) and flights for bands and presenters (£2,869).
The Root Bound festival, spread over a weekend, had workshops in everything from biscuit making to whiskey tasting and iron cooking workshop, salt tasting to songwriting, and at each night's dinners top-flight bluegrass bands performed that included the Forlorn Strangers, Nitrograss, the SteelDrivers and the Dixie Bluegrass Boys.
Although the turbojet is the simplest jet engine and was invented and flown first among all the engine types, it seems useful to examine the entire spectrum of engines in the order of the flight-speed band in which they serve, starting with the slowest namely, the turboshaft engine, which powers helicopters.
Even more than with most of Mr. Wilson's work, the success of any production of "Two Trains" relies on intricately synchronized ensemble work, on a percolating give-and-take among the performers that evokes the savvy looseness of a top-flight jazz band.
The first jolt in her hitherto smooth showbiz career occured when she became the singer with the top-flight white band of Charlie Barnet and suffered the indignity of having to use the tradesmen's entrance and goods elevator when working at smart hotels.
