Word: rhythmically
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...because some inconsiderate couple felt like dawdling over their coffee." To teach latecomers a lesson, Stokowski once had his musicians wander idly off-and onstage while playing a Mozart symphony. Another time he turned to the audience and conducted the coughers: "All right, cough!" he commanded. "I want a rhythmic cough! Make it louder...
...roll vocal version of The In Crowd on a jukebox, decided on impulse to enter his rendition in the sudden-death singles market. He insisted that it should be recorded not in the antiseptic vaults of a sound studio, but in a living, breathing nightclub pulsating with the infectious rhythmic handclapping and exultant cries of "Yeah! Yeah!" from the audience. The In Crowd took off, to date has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, followed by an album that is currently nestled among the top ten bestsellers...
...impressive part of bassist Gary Peacock's playing. It pulled him with flying colors through a long unaccompanied solo in "L". This kind of unaccompanied chorus demands technical proficiency, in addition to purely musical content. For no matter how much thought backs the melodic line, the audience loses the rhythmic and harmonic context normally provided by other instruments; the solo then sounds like a lot of notes in a vacuum. But Peacock's fast playing, by bringing the notes closer together, adds the harmonic element, almost like broken chords...
...true that, by abandoning "running the changes" (melodic improvisations on a repeating harmonic line) he has cut the ground from under the criteria usually used to judge jazz performances. But he has also adopted new improvisational ideas, based on melodic or rhythmic, rather than harmonic bases...
...second method is to put the same melody in different contexts. This constitutes a strong return to the classical tradition. Probably the best example is Bach's The Art of the Fugue, in which one theme is put in hundreds of different harmonic, rhythmic, and mood contexts. Davidson played at this method continually Thursday night, perhaps most successfully in "Stately I." The harmonies sound awfully dissonant at first--as did regular triads in the Middle Ages--and the mood changes are more extreme than those in Bach, but the technique is similar...