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  • His September appearances with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell have been overtaken this year by his "New Trio": French saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh sports a comparatively light, airy sound that suggests a pan-global, postmodern Lester Young ; guitarist Ben Monder occasionally creates Frisell-ian soundscapes, but also foregoes the electronics in favor of more traditional harmonic support.

    The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones Will Friedwald 2011

  • This, from their new album, is an immediately gripping piece of super-saturated, pan-global melancholy with a winningly huge chorus.

    F&M playlist 2011

  • "The now pan-global weed Canadian fleabane arrived in Europe in the seventeenth century in the stuffing of a bird imported from North America," we're told.

    Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

  • The other dissent, by Keith Hennessey, Bill Thomas and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, sees 10 causal factors, but emphasizes the pan-global nature of the housing bubble, which it attributes to ungovernable global capital flows.

    What Caused the Bubble? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • Europe Playing Catch-Up In terms of the potential economic impact of cloud computing on a broader, pan-global scale, it appears that Europe is lagging behind the U.S.

    Meet the Rainmakers Nick Clayton 2011

  • "The now pan-global weed Canadian fleabane arrived in Europe in the seventeenth century in the stuffing of a bird imported from North America," we're told.

    Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling Bill Laws 2011

  • It was a many centuries-long pan-global practice that was born of the many centuries-long original sin: the certainty the institution was right, not just in some things, but in all things, and that God was always on its side.

    Harvey Milk, the wafer and the wine, and Sotomayor 2009

  • Nonetheless, pan-historic and pan-global, blaming others has been the genuine human pastime.

    What I Want, but am not Going to Get for Christmas 2009

  • Too many UK political bloggers seem to forget that their community is just a small part of a huge, pan-global sprawl of good, bad and indifferent outpourings on a broad spectrum of topics.

    Derek Draper is damaging the blogosphere Mark Reckons 2009

  • In a pan-global talking shop like the UN full of different cultures, traditions, histories and political freedoms, how on earth is it possible to arrive at a consensus on ethics.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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