Word: newports
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will be a little tougher, but we've got a better team," Lee Nelson, last year's leading scorer, said at the team's Newport training site overlooking the Atlantic last week...
...worst, free jazz borders on bedlam. At its best-as in the Newport concerts of Taylor and Coleman-the music has internal rhythms and themes that give it direction. For 50 minutes, Taylor-hallmark shades and knit cap in place-and his sidemen wrapped Carnegie Hall in a solid sheet of sound, each member of the group swapping and developing ideas from the others. A frenzied, virtuoso performer, Taylor roiled tempests on the bass of the piano, then modulated into short phrases and lyrical passages that contained echoes of Bartók and Debussy...
Germany alone has some 24. Montreux, Europe's Newport, is expected to draw over 80,000 people this year...
...mainstream itself is changing, pulling in new elements as it goes. On some of his funkier tunes at Newport, Rollins' group used an electric piano and Caribbean conga-drum rhythms. Pianist McCoy Tyner, 39, worked over the keyboard with his great John Coltrane-inspired chords. But backing him up was a new, lush sound provided by a chorus from his latest recording group and a genie of a percussionist who appeared and disappeared, armed with a startling array of gourds and mallet-like instruments...
Perhaps Betty Carter put it best at Newport. She began her set with / Must Have Music and ended with Movin' On, a song whose relentless one-two rhythm propelled it forward like a speeding train...