In that sense, she can be likened to Chet Baker, the hard-living trumpeter who became similarly popular in the '50s with his whispery vocals and restrained sense of swing.

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All this is to say that Davidsbundlertanze takes far more than a sharp sense of rhythm and swing from a performer.

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It was the corruption surrounding Tudjman's friends that did much more to swing the elections than the Croats' sense of loneliness in the world.

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