Word: modale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first brought him to prominence, his sound combined traces of Lester Young's cool obliqueness with Charlie Parker's harmonic and rhythmic complexities. Later he took on a darker, sometimes harsher quality as he came under the influence of John Coltrane's stabbing, honking outcries and modal sheets of sound. Last week's performances showed how successfully he has brought all these strains together within a distinctive, fiery lyricism...
Three current advocates renovate it by applying a technique known as modal logic: Plantinga; Unitarian Charles Hartshorne, a follower of Alfred North Whitehead's "process" philosophy, now retired from the University of Texas; and Roman Catholic Layman James F. Ross of the University of Pennsylvania...