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...remaining student works also tried to make music visual. Elizabeth N. Waterhouse’s ’01 “Lindy Suite”combined ballet and swing dancing to Duke Ellington after Tchaikovsky into a successful and entertaining combination. Another example of this experimental effort could be seen in Kathy E. Crewe’s ’00 tenuous but intriguing “El Ritmo,” a tap dance to the Santana hit by the same name. The dancers let the rhythm flow through them, and were the focus of the concert...
...piano. All the instruments are equal. Everyone’s improvising. everyone’s well versed, regardless of what instrument you perform on. Drummers like Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey played piano also. If you excel on a certain instrument, that’s where you position yourself. Ellington, who’s a composer, he performed on drums as well. Dizzy played all the instruments...
...young Crosby, Giddins argues convincingly, was a major musical innovator who all but single-handedly created the modern manner of microphone-assisted singing that dominates pop to this day. He roomed with Bix Beiderbecke, recorded St. Louis Blues with Duke Ellington and formed a mutual-admiration society with Louis Armstrong (Louis taught Bing how to scat; Bing taught Louis how to croon...
...Backed up by Canadian super-guitarist Ed Bickert, Desmond, who died in 1977, spins out long, pungent melodic lines that float through the air with luminous grace. Best of all is a slyly witty version of Things Ain't What They Used to Be that would have made Duke Ellington grin...
...course it's Ellington who said it best. "If it sounds good," he said about music, "it is good." That definition should stand and serve here too. Nothing else on television has ever sounded as good as Jazz...