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SIZE matters. When you have 20 musicians - including one girl in a sexy white dress who basically just moved her perky butt and shook the tambourine - it's hard not to be moved by their stage presence and antics.
And, suffice to say that they made a lot of noise - but oh, what brilliant, beautiful noise. British pianist Jools Holland, dapper-looking in a suit, and his merry gang played doo-wop, dancehall, rockabilly, soul and blues.
But whatever your ears chose to identify it as, the musical mosaic concocted in the concert hall was certainly arresting.
It got the almost sold-out crowd of 1,600, mainly expatriates, up on its feet, especially when the band stormed through bluesman Willie Dixon's Seventh Son very early in the show.
Holland, who first made waves with new wave band Squeeze in the 1970s, generally kept things neat and tidy, though the music was anything but, even in slow-torch songs like What Would I Do Without You.
The gorgeous interplay of many instruments weaving in and out of the mix contradicted the saying that too many cooks spoil the broth.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times Life!
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