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...first black artist with his own network TV show, Cole was a jazz pianist whose voice was too lyrical and intimate to be shut up. He put that silky, highly palatized tenor to splendid use in this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
...care Christmas play. “He was very furious. There was not a smile on his face because he was beating that drum and he never missed a beat,” she said. That determination continues to his musical endeavors today. Terrelonge is a tenor with the Harvard Din & Tonics, and he used to sing with Under Construction, a Christian a capella group. A former BGLTSA social chair, he also works with Building on Diversity (BOND) to organize social events for non-heterosexual students, in part because he did not come out until his freshman year at Harvard...
...great party guy or anything. The album’s opening track, “Shakedown,” has a simple, stomping, horn-based beat (think Scott Storch in the third grade) that leaves plenty of space for Akon’s ultra-smooth tenor to fill. He does an exciting job until the gunshot repeating in the background starts shoving its way forward, breaking up the fun. “Blown Away” continues to favor toughness over fun. “If you ain’t man enough to make shit clear / guaranteed you?...
...hard to come by this season, thanks in no small part to the return of the squad’s three Olympians—co-captain Julie Chu, sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt, and junior Caitlin Cahow—from year-long absences. Martin also credits the trio with elevating the tenor of practices.“It just ups everyone’s level of play,” Martin says. “They’re high-caliber players, and having them around pushes you harder. They shoot a little harder, picking on a little more corners...
...piano, and creates a unique and more importantly compelling sound from its worldly inspirations. Other slower songs such as “Three Clowns,” “The Orphan,” and “Dream Clock” find Shorter in his element on tenor saxophone, conjuring beautiful melodies effortlessly and insistently...