Some populist critics decried this ambition, and John Hammond, a well-to-do liberal impresario, denounced Ellington's concert works as vapid, accusing him of ignoring the troubles of his people.

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Veterans John McCallum and Roger Hammond are extremely likeable as two bumbling old duffers, while Googie Withers, 72 years after her first stage appearance, is simply a legend.

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Mr. Bernstein's group, which featured John Medeski on the Hammond B-3, turned (Le) Poisson Rouge into a dance club on Friday with his Sly interpretations, and the Bernie Worrell Orchestra did the same a night later.

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Mr Hammond said the government's chief scientific adviser Professor Sir John Beddington will be working with transport operators to see what can be done to alleviate severe winters.

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It's six weeks now since you succeeded Peter Mandelson John, if, if we had known then what we know now after Hammond would it have been right to ask for his resignation or fire him?

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