Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second-String Skimping. Though outmanned and out-budgeted on most big stories, and in many areas, especially the Far East, U.P. men learn early in their careers that there are ways of outfoxing A.P. For all its eager-beaver ways. U.P. coverage of run-of-the-mine news is severely hobbled by its low-budget policies, and by the fact that the A.P. has the first chance at the news developed by its 1.750 member newspapers and thus, in effect, draws on a vast pool of news that no wire service could produce independently. The U.P. has no such...
Currently the Hi-Lo's are looking high and low for new material, are even experimenting with arrangements of classical music. "There is no reason," says Arranger Puerling, "why four voices can't do Air on the G String by Bach. It's not sacrilegious...
...voices to Manhattan for the first time, and proved to the jazz-wise Birdland audience that when they are not kidding, they can husk out just about the slickest sound in the current trade. "We like to sing," says Hi-Lo's Leader Gene Puerling, "almost like a string quartet...
Bull's-Eye Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar...
Music for Lighthousekeeping (Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars; Contemporary). Volume 8 in this West Coast series is marked by playing of piano-string tautness and vibrating energy. Bob Cooper is a glib, honey-mouthed talker on the tenor...