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Jazzmatazz
While
the off-form Lou Bega was wilting at his stadium concert in Delhi along
with 8,000 others, more fortunate music lovers were chilling out at the
Maurya Sheraton. The reason (other than full blast ACs): Angela Hagenbach,
one of America's best jazz artists (dressed sportingly in an emerald sari
given to her by Louis Banks' wife "in Bumbaai
Mambaai or whatever Bombay's new name is") was going ragtime
with some deathless tunes like Duke Ellington's Take the 'A' train and
Cole Porter's sonorous classic I've got you under my skin. The American
Embassy, the hosts, had also arranged a decorously American dinner
including spare ribs, red fennel hash and turkey burgers. But the hall got
empty as soon as the buffet ended. Delhiites seem to prefer Daler even if
they dig Yankee food.
-Anshul
Avijit
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