Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cuthusiasm the rhythm section. Count Basic may not be your favorite orchestra, but you'll have to go far to find a rhythm section as completely sensitive to the ensemble attack and phrasing, as the Count's. Remember that with four men Jo Jones on drums, Freddic Green on guitar, Walter Page on bass, and Basie himself on piano--the experiment of using the section as a solo unit was first carried out. Listen to the release choruses on records like Doggin' Around and Jumpin' at the Woodside and see how the four men alone build up the drive...
...Brazilian musical form is the chôro (pronounced shoro}, in which one instrument in an ensemble improvises on a theme, in about the same way that a U. S. jazz musician "takes a chorus" for a solo ride. Villa-Lobos has composed 14 choros, ranging from a guitar solo to a magnificent, jungle-rhythmed piece, Choros No. 10, for chorus and orchestra...
...revue is a burlesque show of the very best sort, with the same sort of humor--reasonably clean, of course--and the same sort of vaudeville. Unlike the Old Howard, it also displays some beautiful and seductive women. For the rest, however, it consists of the usual acrobats, guitar players, slapstick comics, and tap dancers. The De Marcos come down from the St. Regis and live to do a very nice bit of dancing. A troupe of jugglers awes very efficiently. Jane Pickens is lovely to look at and O.K. for listening, too, except when she teams up with some...
...mountain hamlets in the Blue Ridge and the Cumberland, a perennial visitor for 25 years has been a lean, loquacious man, with a slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...
This week, at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the De Beers collection of modern art was put on public display. The eleven canvases shown had nothing obvious to say about diamonds : most pictured women, one a man with a guitar, one a bunch of flowers, one the façade of a cathedral...