Word: balladic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skills, but not the overall aesthetic sense to find an appropriate setting for them. One of the most aggravating motifs that continually recurs in Redman's playing in his insistence on rising into the shrill falsetto of his tenor sax at utterly inappropriate times. On a ballad entitled "Never End," Redman seemed to mock any legitimate musical statements he may have made earlier in the piece by turning the tenor sax into a penny whistle. Irony in jazz is a good thing, but Redman's silliness is not the same as the sophisticated wit of a Duke Ellington, whose self...
...Paul Gonsalves feature. Marsalis ended the tune by leading the trumpet section offstage followed by trombones and saxes in a second-line march. A five-minute standing ovation brought Marsalis back with pianist Eric Reed for a rendition of Marsalis's best composition of the evening, the ballad "Spanish Yaounde." Another five minutes brought the entire band back for "Across the Track Blues" to close the night...
...first 40 minutes of the hour and a half show, Smith read from Early Works 1970-1979. Opening with an early poem, "Ballad of a Bad Boy," her jagged voice revealed her hard-core side--the punk Smith, utterly defiant and deviant...
...those fabulous songs from the Gulf War? Oh, that's right, there weren't any. And we'd guess that few families gather round the piano to sing of the invasions of Grenada and Panama. Vietnam is pretty much an angry face-off between Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler (The Ballad of the Green Berets) and Country Joe & the Fish (I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag). The Korean War has a memorial now, but still no memorable songs. It's as if, after World War II, Americans decided that internationally sanctioned slaughter was no longer something to sing...
...originally performed by the Jones Girls in the '70s). While Jodeci's songs are often about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing, the lyrics sound like a transcript from a Ricki Lake segment: "Every time I fall I make myself believe that you are changing and someday the sun will shine...