Word: rhythmics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...
...Rhythmic Finesse. Born continents and almost a generation apart, both prove that talent tells. Cantrell, 23, is a slangy, swinging Aussie blonde with a communicable crush on life. She's got a lean, almost Twiggy figure, long arms, and a lilting voice. More of a pop than a jazz singer, she goes against all cabaret conventions. She opens with downbeat tunes such as I'm All Smiles, and then follows with joyous ballads - Let Your self Go, Nothing Can Stop Me Now, Sunny - achieving an intense dramatic vocal projection that plays an audience much as Streisand does...
...peer." Stockhausen tends to agree. Aggressively indifferent to criticism, he is interested only in exploring every corner of the aural landscape. He has completely done away with traditional music forms, conceives his works instead in terms of "moments" or time lapses that are carefully structured but follow no conventional rhythmic pattern...
...blues, soulin' is a Rawls specialty. His style is all his own. Drawing from a mixed bag of songs, he improvises effortlessly within a three-octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame." The tumbling litanies lend a lively, mirthful twist...
...TEMPTATIONS GREATEST HITS (Gordy). Rhythm 'n' blues is the growing noise nowadays, challenging rock 'n' roll on the charts, and no group is truer blue or more insinuatingly rhythmic than the five Temptations. Eight of the dozen songs are by Bill "Smokey" Robinson, including those catchy classics from an earlier album, The Temptations Sing Smokey: The Way You Do the Things You Do and My Girl...