Referring to "modern mobsters" in their customarily loopy show notes, the Dsquared designers Dan and Dean Caten jolted both the crowd and their label awake early Tuesday morning with a show that took place against a jazz club backdrop.
The evidence, from what we've heard so far, doesn't entirely back that up: the title track is a six-minute piece of string-drenched noir, whereas Terrence Loves You luxuriates in a stylish, jazz-tinged backdrop.
Listen on Spotify It opens with Indoor Games Near Newbury, the clippity-clop of frisky tea-room jazz as the backdrop to Betjeman's flashback, here concerning young, unconsummated love played out in a dark cupboard during a kids' Christmas party.
And although "Side Man" may focus on a family, it also boasts the unusual backdrop of jazz, which, said its American co-producer Ron Kastner, could work on its behalf.
His brief overview of an artistic world being transformed by Jewish intellectual immigration, the GI Bill, abstract expressionism and modern jazz provides a contoured backdrop to both Dylan's successes there and his protracted self-immolation.
During the evenings of the opening weekend, once the 40C heat had subsided, this tilted landscape was thronging with children playing in its handsomely equipped playgrounds, pensioners licking ice creams to a backdrop of live jazz, andyoung couples scampering through the bushes, stirring up scents of rosemary and lavender.
"The Wonder" is Tobias' re-edit of an old boogie tune with a funky makeover, blending house and electro beats with a disco backdrop and smooth jazz vocals from Be Atwell, Tobias Brixtoniann friend.
The film, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, two of the men behind "The Little Mermaid," unfolds against a raucous backdrop of voodoo and jazz.
Among his neighbors at the hotel he discovered so many dancers, painters, D.J.'s and jazz musicians that he raised a backdrop in his studio and invited them in, one by one, to shoot.
Nkosi effortlessly acquired the habits of his colleagues – the demanding journalistic assignments, the clashes with the law, the insatiable literary talk, heavy drinking, jazz through the night – against the backdrop of quotidian township violence.
