Word: trumpet
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...than detracting from these melodies, heightens them; Anderson doesn't merely colour the songs with African instruments in order to give them an exotic tinge, rather she blends her elements of rock-influenced minimalism and Third World ethnic music so well that she succeeds in creating what avant-garde trumpet player Jon Hassell dubbed "Fourth World Music" "a primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques...
Wynton Marsalis: Think of One (Columbia). Mathematical arabesques on the trumpet by a 22-year-old who is fast turning from a prodigy into a world-class...
...opera stage, has there been a singer who dominated the German roles and triumphed in dramatic Italian parts as well. What set Nilsson apart was not only the breadth of her rep ertoire but her vocal command. That famed voice, instantly identifiable, was a cross between a celestial trumpet and lighthouse beacon: blazing, soaring, shining, glowing...
Before breaking away from the clubs completely, there is one short-term measure the University can take to mitigate one of the most egregious connections. As long as it continues to own part of the Fly's garden, the least it can do is to trumpet the fact that every member of the Harvard community is entitled to use the lawn by signing up with Epps or the Fly steward...
...year later, Marsalis has issued a new jazz album, Think of One (title track courtesy Thelonious Monk), and, concurrently, a piece of classical virtuosity, three trumpet concertos (Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Hummel). And Marsalis just seems to be warming up. Remarked the classical trumpet virtuoso Maurice André": "He is potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time...