Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swaying back and forth on the piano bench, Leon unconsciously accompanies the rhythm of his speech with the rhythm of his body. He flips his tap shoe lightly over and tightens a screw in the metal heel with a flick of a screwdriver...
...says working with musicians was exciting for him because he discovered he could reproduce their melodies with his feet. Although he couldn't get the intonation he could get the rhythm and the emotion came through the movements of his entire boc "Dancing is the poetry of the body, while music is the poetry of the soul," he smiles...
...Shepard, who is preparing to undercut the competition with a $10 digital record of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in hot pursuit of a Bartok concerto. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., will bring out its first digital record next month, Ry Cooder's lively excursion into rhythm and blues, Bop Till You Drop. Warner is thus the first major American record company to release a nonclassical digital album, one that proves digital will make everything sound better, whether it has sweep or whether it has soul...
...ADDITION to the constant movement of the camera, as well as the movement of characters/objects within a shot, the characteristic rhythm of New York life emerges on the screen through the order and juxtaposition of the sequences within the narrative flow. The principle of their organization is contrapuntal: a predominantly brightly lit sequence is succeeded by a dark one, while a long take is almost invariably replaced by a sequence composed of many edited shots (principally of characters conversing in close-ups). This concept of the film as a juxtaposition of visual events unforcefully related to each other...
...result is a knock-down, drag-out success, at least as long as the non-stop beat blasts away on the first side of the disc. In the title track, Gordon's band, the Wildcats, lays down a tight boogie rhythm and Gordon wails the praises of a lively nightclub on the edge of town. No one has heard the likes of his squeal in the choruses since Buddy Holly crooned "Peggy Sue" at the top of his throat...