Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GETZ AU GO GO (Verve). Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz and Mrs. Gilberto again (One Note Samba, Corcovado...
...black...a rhythm ripples in the sun, pounds in steaming, stinking shacks, dances in the blood. Reality is kaleidoscopic in the black belt. Sometimes one's vision changes with it. A crooked man climbed a crooked tree on a crooked hill. Somewhere, in the midst of the past, a tenor sang of valleys lifted up and hills made low. Death at the heart of life, and life in the midst of death. The tree of life is indeed a Cross...
Audrey Hepburn hardly makes a move without Famous, her tiny Yorkshire. Liz Taylor takes her Pekingese and three Yorkshires almost everywhere. Tenor Franco Corelli travels with a poodle. Actor Rex Harrison brings a basset hound, and Gypsy Rose Lee has even smuggled her Chinese hairless puppy onto an airplane in her bra. With all that precedent, it was hardly a surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman got the idea too. The result is that now Rover is roving all over the world nearly as much as his owner...
ANDREW HILL: POINT OF DEPARTURE (Blue Note). This is a highly individualistic combo with a strong visceral sound. The standout is the late saxophonist Eric Dolphy, who easily steals the record from Hill with searingly emotional solos, and stimulates Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Kenny Dorham (trumpet) and Richard Davis (bass). Hill believes in arrangements that give free rein to his musicians' personalities and their ways of extemporizing; on this disk he has achieved a memorable ensemble...
RICHARD TUCKER: THE ART OF BEL CANTO (Columbia). The great American tenor sings the ravishingly beautiful songs and arias (Caro mio ben, Gid il sole dal Gange) that constitute the canon of bel canto. His vocal line, the essential element in bel canto, is lyrical, firm and without breaks. There are more sensual interpretations of the art, but few more satisfying...