In a remarkable biography, Mr Loving has captured much of the quality of this teeming, improvisatory life.

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Accompanied by bass and drums, Roberts spins out a lighthearted interpretation full of surprises: a staccato take on the title line, lush rolled chords that flow like honey, an insistent improvisatory flight with bebop roots.

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The director, Joe Dante, and his team (which includes the screenwriter Charlie Haas and the effects supervisor Rick Baker) have made a multimillion-dollar, special-effects-crammed picture that has the loose, improvisatory feel of the great Warner Brothers cartoons of the forties and fifties.

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