I AM grateful for Alison Kerr's generous review of the new and new format Penguin Guide to Jazz in your Arts section ("Ear for a good read", The Herald, October 30). However, Ms Kerr suggests that my comments on cornetist Warren Vache are "rather dismissive and arrogant", reading "like the school report of someone who has only made it on to the shortlist by the skin of his teeth". Really? I had thought my comments on Vache's 2gether CD amounted to a rave: "an unqualified delight"; "finesse, joyous invention and unassuming charm"and "as close to perfection as you can imagine a duet could ever be", which isn't well put, but the sentiment is unmistakable.
On the apparent dearth of Scottish names, the same might be said about Australian, Hungariaan, Lithuanian and Slovenian jazz, all comparably lively scenes. The Penguin Gu...
MANAVIGATOR-February 9, 2010- (C)2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http:// www.m2.com Slovenian food retailer Mercator (LJE:MELR) has received eight non-binding offers for the 36.35% stake up for sale, Arkas, the company managing the sale, said in a statement on Tuesday.
... deal, Arkas added without disclosing their names. At the end of last year, a number of Slovenian ba...
On the 50th anniversary of Oliver Hardy's death, JIM GILCHRIST pays tribute to the Hollywood legend. Behind the fat, bowler-hatted buffoon of the silent screen was a comic genius SOME grainy home movie footage shot in 1956 shows the greatest comedy duo of the 20th century, Laurel and Hardy, five years after their last film, Atoll K, had been dogged by production problems and their own poor health.
... Albanian, Estonian, Korean, Kurdish and Slovenian, they remain household names. "Their comedy is ver...
ROBERT Koren is willing to forsake his personal plaudits if it means he can help steer Hull City away from the Championship's bottom three. The Slovenian midfielder has been instrumental in the Tigers' mini revival, taking his season haul to five goals with crucial strikes against Ipswich and Middlesbrough.
... man - his left arm is etched with the names of his two young sons Nal and Tian - Koren has bag...
Flis discusses Slovenia's contemporary literature. Slovenia is a nation who has struggled for independence, and who has always, despite hardships, managed to find hope through the written word.
...Contemporary Slovenian authors are, regrettably, not well represented on ... us put down a couple of the most prominent names: Brane Mozetic, Maja Novak (1960) (famous for her ...
HARIS VUCKIC walked past the glittering array of sports cars, jeeps and convertibles at Newcastle United's plush Benton base. Then, after getting changed in a foreign atmosphere surrounded by a language he didn't understand, the teenager took his place on the training field alongside global icons such as Michael Owen, Mark Viduka and Nicky Butt.
... new faces on Tyneside, this freshfaced Slovenian could be about to turn into a true Gallowgate hero..., formerly Yugoslavia, of very few household names - given their recent emergence - when it comes to ...
LIVERPOOL International organiser, Anders Borg, has unveiled his most important signing of the summer so far - the sun. The Swedish tennis enthusiast has assembled some of the biggest names in world tennis to perform at Calderstones Park from Wednesday, for five days.
..., Robert Kendrick and 18-year-old Slovenian star Novak Bjorkovic are the big names from the cu...
OF ALL the entries in Alex McLeish's pre-season diary, the Champions League third qualifying round draw which takes place in Switzerland at 11am today is most likely to have been penned in red ink. While the Rangers manager can reflect with justifiable satisfaction on the early signs displayed by his revamped side during four straight victories in friendly matches so far, it is the outcome of their Champions League qualifier next month which will define what is arguably the most significant campaign of McLeish's managerial career.
... after Hans Backe's side won 2-1 away to Slovenian champions Gorica on Tuesday. Red Star Belgrade, Diinamo Bucharest and Trabzonspor are other names which would send ripples of concern through the Ra...
IF ENGLAND had not qualified from their group, it would have been a bigger failure than France's. The French are a laughing stock throughout the world, but had Fabio Capello's men not edged past an average Slovenian side then the joke would have been on them.
... consistent outfit, but they've no real big names and remember - this is a game that is about tenth ...
Edwin de Graaf has been taking a bit of stick after managing to help get a group of his team-mates lost as they embarked on a cycling excursion around the sports complex on the outskirts of Arnhem where Hibs have been preparing for their Europa League encounter with Slovenian club NK Maribor. Trusting to what they believed was the Dutchman's local knowledge, they found their bike ride lasting some 25 minutes longer than anticipated, arriving back at base well behind the leading pack.
... "In Holland, Celtic and Rangers are the big names. Clubs like Hibernian and Dundee United people don...
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