ost concerts no surprise. The band played a mix-up of their hits, a few things from the new album and crowd-pleasers to finish.
Maybe because Seattle's Pink Martini - a 10-piece of the impressive singer China Forbes - have not had "hits", they are free from the machine, set unsurprising list.
The surprise began before they played, there is not much goodness Gracious Me (Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren) and Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side as heating free.
Or start with Ravel's Bolero.
But Pink Martini - helmed by the gifted pianist / arranger Thomas M. Lauderdale - is unlike any other group.
Their set roamed across languages, went out of their breathtakingly beautiful ballad In the Grass Valley and splendor (which they rewrite the ballad Burning Bridges and drop some soaring Tchaikovsky), a drum solo Sandy Nelson and worthy of playing guitar (Dan Faehnle) beginning in which the jazz genius Jim Hall left off.
They offered a version of Watermelon Man to allow trumpeter Gavin Bondy to shine, Gypsy romance conjured up, samba ...
and all before the interval.
