Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COLLABORATION: THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET WITH LAURINDO ALMEIDA (Atlantic). The M.J.Q. and the Brazilian guitarist seem meant for each other, like gin and vermouth. Not that they are intoxicating; their colors are muted, their moods refined, their rhythms subtle. They can swing, but seldom do. In Bach's A Minor Fugue they demonstrate delicate counterpoint, and in the Adagio from the Concierto de Aranjuez they conjure up a lavender twilight as the guitar gently punctures the lingering ring of the vibraharp...
...FAIR LADY (Columbia). The sculptor Pygmalion stopped after producing one fair lady, but Columbia Records has no quota. There is a Fair Lady to swing to (by Andre Previn), another to sway to (by Sammy Kaye), one to weep by (Andy Williams), and one to sleep by (Percy Faith). There is also the new movie soundtrack, which has Rex Harrison in fine, fierce fettle. But Soprano Marni Nixon, dubbing in the voice of Eliza for Audrey Hepburn, sings with more finish than fire. Lovers of Broadway's fair lady, Julie Andrews, will insist on the original-cast recording, which...
...supposed to be the other way around. Well, anyway, there wasn't a ball in sight, and as the columnist in the London Daily Mail observed, "I've never heard of a golfer shoving the stem of his pipe into the roof of his mouth during a swing!" Harry S. Truman and Dwight...
...When you weigh 251 Ibs.," he says, "there's no sense in trying to run around smaller people. I just run through them." Against the San Diego Chargers earlier this season, Gilchrist caught a swing pass from Quarterback Kemp. Nobody was fooled. One after another, four defenders piled on top of Cookie. He finally went down-after staggering...
...Swing...