Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these days-most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) has broken the rules; he does not believe that jazz requires any particular combination of instruments, or that it needs a strong beat, or that its heart is improvisation. To addicts weaned on driving, Basie-inspired rhythm sections, Jimmy's chamois-soft contrapuntal compositions sometimes do not sound like jazz at all. But the feeling is there-a folksy, blues-drenched feeling, timeless and distinct from the music of any other modern jazzman...
...Central Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train...
Jimmy Giuffre first played the clarinet in a Y.M.C.A. band, developed his style out of a distaste for the trancelike monotony of the big jazz rhythm section. In his 36 years he has played with a lot of big outfits-Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Garwood Van, Spade Cooley. When Giuffre got out of the Army, he enrolled at the University of Southern California, became interested in Bartok, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Prokofiev. He began to write "linear" music, in which he tried to keep the rhythm section ("It should be felt rather than heard") from conflicting with other...
...used birth control, nearly all (except the subfertile) intended to do so at some future time. Even among Roman Catholics, Dr. Freedman found, 87% of the normally fertile couples had used or intended to use some means of family limitation. "Many," he reported, "use the rhythm method, but many...
...musical score says more about the finished product than the script of a play. Play actors have a more imaginative, personal contribution than musicians. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is actually a musical aria, but the 'score' gives only the meaning, not the melody and rhythm...