Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wendemi" focuses on the path of an illegitimate man's search for his true identity after his community does not allow him to marry his love, Pogbi. "Wendemi" falls short of Yamego's goal, a criticism of sexual mores, and degenerates into a slow, plodding low-energy rhythm...
...West Side Story" (directed by Scott Brown, produced by Melissa Swift) takes on the full challenge of the musical--the singing, dancing, scatting, even the blindingly bright costumes--and pulls it off with style. The make-or-break moment comes right at the beginning, when the Jets, snapping in rhythm and looking cool, break into that first pirouette. Not only is it surprisingly graceful, but the six buddy-boys do it with such infectious high spirits that the audience can't help but respond in kind...
...second set, however, Redman turned up the heat for the Sanders audience. With the support of his excellent rhythm section, Redman's composition, "Lyric," became a tour de force. The long, exotic ballad gradually increased in intensity and tempo until Redman gave the cue for a frenzied modal cycle which provided the framework for his most convincing playing of the evening. Finally, the patented falsetto shrieks had found an appropriate setting. The solo by pianist Peter Martin was one of many mesmerizing offerings by this quintessentially capable sideman...
DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo...
That sort of indicated to the audience that this was a comedy, and that they were relaxed and they should laugh at things. And then they did. As soon as they get in a rhythm of laughing at the funnier lines, you sort of come to expect it and although of course you can't wait for it, after you say them, you know that there's going to be some sort of response and that just sort of helps you raise your performance to the next level...