Word: improvisationism
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Like Evans, Mehldau prefers the trio format, performing last week at Scullers with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. A so-called piano intellectual, Mehldau lived up to his reputation, often quoting Bach-not only Johannes Sebastian, but Carl Philip Emanuel, whose "Solfeggio in C minor" was heard in...
It's not to say that there is something inherently preferable about melody over improvisation, or ballad tempo over fugue. But Mehldau, like Bach, is at his best slowed down. Like Glenn Gould playing 32nd trills as eighth notes, Mehldau proves that virtuosity is not dependent on quick pace alone...
Experimental rock improv band The Magic Number has been seen alongside other bands at various campus venues (including the Advocate, which sponsored the Cabaret along with the Signet Society, the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance), but created one of the most...
The curious thing about swing, though, is that it was popular and poignant simultaneously, at once low and high, democratic and aristocratic. At its best, swing wedded a danceable rhythm to challenging harmonics and inspired improvisation, producing a single musical form capable of pleasing aesthetes along with everyone else. Swing...
Padre Marcelo's theological workout was born of improvisation. Shortly after his ordination in 1989, he asked young churchgoers to stay after Mass and do aerobics, to prevent a crush at the door. His evangelical preaching style attracted so many worshippers that he had to move services to an old...