Word: musician
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This is like bragging that plucking a rooster makes him crow better. Though jazz composers and arrangers have shown that improvisation is not always essential to good jazz, the scores they write are tailored to fit the styles and sounds of individual musicians. There are no standard jazz compositions that every musician is expected to play in the same way; the rhythmic subtleties that jazz requires defy notation by the composer...
Maldarelli sometimes worked in terra cotta, plaster, limestone or wood, but his favorite material was marble. With it, he said, "you can play a chisel as a musician plays an instrument." It was while he was working on a piece of fine marble one day in January that a heart attack struck him dead-an artist due, like many another, to win greater fame after death than he ever knew while alive...
After a stab at prizefighting and working in the Packard foundry in Detroit, Cahn began his life as a musician among the founders of the American folk music movement--men like Pete Seeger and Millard Lampell. Since the late 1940's he has travelled extensively throughout the United States and to Spain and the Carribean, collecting, teaching, and performing. The Carribbean trip was on a grant from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he met his former wife, blues singer Barbara Dane...
...calypso. But Cahn really doesn't sing folk songs, and he doesn't really sing blues. In the true jazz sense, Cahn's music has become an extension of his own personality and his own unique approach to life, he must be classed as more of a jazz musician than a folk musician. Cahn sings everything with a German-Jewish accent which alienates many purists. But those who judge him in comparison with Eric Von Schmidt, Jack Elliott or Sabicas (depending on which type of music Cahn happens to be playing) miss the point of Rolf Cahn. To borrow...
Szell harbors a hidden fondness for musicians, but he keeps it under perfect control. At work with his orchestra, he is so immaculately severe that a few players complain of his cruelty, hinting darkly that he has driven a musician or two into emergency mental care. Others feel that he is so coldly unresponsive to their feelings that he pushes them past the point of artistic aspiration, rehearsing so much that they pass their peak before concert time. "If you really want to hear how good we are, come to rehearsal," says a Cleveland violinist...