Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band style of a Count Basic or a Woody Herman, the fancily punctuated choruses of sidemen who have played together for years. With a lazy, slushy beat, the band swung into A Ghost of a Chance, faded while 14-year-old Andrew Marsala launched an intricately woven alto-sax solo, then came back strong and brassy, only to fade again before Marsala's languorous solo finish. Although some of the band members could scarcely reach the floor with their feet, they never lost the instinctive surefire phrasing that produces the big band feel. The audience gave them the first...
Technically, stereophonic recording has come a long way. Early tapes sometimes had a solo singer's voice volleying from one speaker to the other like a hopped-up tennis ball. That exaggerated effect (due to incorrect microphone placement during the recording session) is now gone. Few who have heard really good stereo will ever be satisfied with anything else. As a demonstration of just how fi stereo has become, a team of acoustical engineers put concealed speakers on the stage of San Francisco's Opera House. The San Francisco Symphony went through the motions of playing while...
Next day John Foster Dulles publicly avowed in his press conference that the U.S. was not playing solo. The disarmament discussions, he said, are not "just between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. And we are not going to throw into the discard the views of our allies merely in the interest of making progress on a bilateral basis with the Soviet Union...
...influential composer. What the world salutes in Stravinsky, among other things, is a paradox: in his 50 years as a composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says Impresario Lincoln Kirstein: "He heard first for us all. Sounds he has found or invented, however strange or forbidding at the outset, have become domesticated in our ears...
...figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...