Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lingo. Working last week with his own quartet (trumpet, piano, bass, drums) in a Los Angeles jazz joint called Zardi's, Chet kept his tempos up, his rhythm hard-swinging. His program consisted mostly of cool-jazz originals such as Maid in Mexico and Soft Shoe, but also included such rich-chorded pop tunes as Funny Valentine and All the Things You Are. Trumpeter Baker stood with his body motionless, his ears bent for the counterpoint of his sidemen, his eyes tiredly closed...
...uncommon in contemporary music but some glimmer of compensation is expected in such cases. I saw none in Mr. Bavicchi's Sonata for Two Pianos. Passages of elementary and conventional sentimentality were occasionally introduced only to be brutally transformed into sequences of unrelenting harshness. Abrupt shifts of mood and rhythm marked no inventive richness; rather, they seemed indicative on one composer's inability to develop any one thought. Any unique merit may well be missed in a first hearing and I hope I may have a chance to re-evaluate this piece...
Each number, whether a melancholy Bunny or Plymouth Rock or a driving version of Lulu's Back in Town, bore the basic Basie imprint. After the Count played a phrase or two on the piano, the rhythm section began to boost the beat while cymbals sizzled in the background. Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...
...capes billowing behind their white uniforms, pranced into a back ward at Central Oklahoma State Hospital at Norman one day last week. Their exaggerated steps kept time with the firm beat of The Stars and Stripes Forever, played fortissimo over the public-address system. In their hands, accenting the rhythm still more, they held tambourines, clappers, castanets, maracas, and even bongo drums. Other nurses, also armed with noisemakers, stood around among the patients...
...tries to match the music to the patients. For the elderly and conservative, there are Gay Nineties tunes; for the young, bop. Except for deliberately sedative programs, strong rhythm is essential to get attention. After contact with the patient has been regained, the doctors can go to work with occupational and recreational therapy. Music itself is no cure, but it has helped so many patients that Dr. Witten says: "We don't talk in terms of hopeless cases; we don't believe there are any." Now 30 of the patients are so far recovered that they turned...