Word: rhythmical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music called bop which arose in the mid-40's represented a radical enlargement of the tonal and rhythmic language of traditional jazz. Yet it became clear after a few years that bop had its own limitations, but it had developed certain specific conventions within which only the greatest improvisors could flourish. When these improvisors were not forthcoming, some, like Horace Silver, worked out partial solutions, but these were largely formal in nature...
Sonny Rollins was the first improviser to secure a position of respect at all comparable with that of Charlie Parker, the Father of us all. He added certain harmonic refinements and rhythmic subtleties to a basically Parker conception of improvising, but his real message is greater awareness of the possibilites of the thematic development of a solo. Of course, this was all largely unconscious; but Sonny, like all the great improvisers, has an extremely disciplined unconscious. His best records are Saxophone Colossus (Prestige 1079) and A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note...
...Altinshoki steppes, clear-eyed workmen scrambling among the wooden scaffolding of a thousand construction sites. Important guests are dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves; fit-looking soldiers march past in cadenced columns; phalanxes of workers with banners roar out slogans extolling the greatness of Communism and hatred of "American imperialism." Here, evidently, is all the panoplied might...
...film like this becomes a masterpiece if it succeeds at all: what is remarkable is that the myth does work. Largely, Camus has accomplished his end through surrealism and through appeal to a whole secondary set of myths: the archetypal image the audience holds of the rhythmic and sexual Negro. Only in Kio, and only with black stars could this incredible tale become real. But in this strange, lovely land, Orpheus does live again...
...mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles also introduces him to a series of Soho oddballs whose rhythmic appearance and disappearance constitute what there is of a story line. In the end, Harry and Doreen move into a house in Ladbroke...