Word: counterpointed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tempo, as in Liza, where the tune dashes off in improbable directions and fetches up, quivering, back where it started; 3) production numbers, as in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which the pianist may start off in concert style, fall into a swinging beat, throw in a dash of counterpoint, and conclude with a sweeping finale full of big chords and scale runs...
Concert style comes easily to English-born Pianist McPartland. She studied harmony, counterpoint, violin and piano at London's famed Guildhall School of Music in her teens. But all the while she was listening to records of Jazz Pianists...
...United Nations Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge fell the duty of arguing the U.S. position in the U.N., and he argued with a singleness of purpose and a talent for counterpoint that the U.N. has seldom heard from...
...needles, but there is not another sound until the record is ended. While the music is on, Kinsey eyes his guests to see whether they catch the nuances of a fine performance. Between numbers, and at a sherbet and cake intermission, there is no idle chatter-only the point-counterpoint of lofty criticism. When the last piece has been played, the guests rise as one, thank the Kinseys for a lovely evening, and leave in a body...
Their orchestration is highbrow, including a lot of counterpoint, but every Sauter-Finegan arrangement has either a palpable atmosphere or a clear story line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the sidelines, the big band runs through a notably moist version of Rain, a playful Midnight Sleighride, a dreamy April in Paris. Jazz-wise listeners only had an occasional sense of too much novelty for its own sake...