Word: growling
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...cache, and the surfaces are the same miserable Decca surfaces. In addition, three titles are duplicated in the two albums though the performances are different: "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," "The Mooche," and "Mood Indigo," The first two should be in every collection because of Bubber Miley's fabulous growl trumpet...
...Blue Bulldog and he's been biting at Johnnie Harvard's heels for nigh onto 60 years now, but there won't be a trace of senility in the Eli hound's growl when he rushes onto his home greensward to grapple with the Crimson this Saturday in the sixty-first clash of the ivied classic, which started in the same year that the "new dining-club at Memorial Hall" served its first lamb and mint jelly...
...struggle out of the ooze and goo that is Lombardo, and investigate this thing called jazz, he is generally licked from the start. He is seized upon by friends steeped in jazz lore and subjected to Gutbucket Gus and his Dixieland Breakdowners. Appalled by the seemingly mad confusion of growl trumpets and crisscrossing trombones, he yields himself again to the blandishments of the Kysers and the Kayes, who, if cloying, are at least comprehensible...
...Emigdio, San Gennaro and Santa Barbara are the saints whose job it is to tame earthquakes. Perhaps they were caught napping. Or perhaps too few prayers had recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands...
Even Bartok finds transcribing such music difficult and laborious. He runs the turntable at a slow speed, so that a woman's voice sounds like a man's, a man's like a growl. In this way he can hear details more clearly. Says he: "It is like looking through a microscope." After every bar or two, he must lift the needle to write down what he has heard. Folk tunes are seldom sung precisely the same way twice; noting the slight variations is an important, tricky part of his work...