Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is plenty of quality in names like McGill, Loucks, Brink, Ward, Shugart, Coker, and Dougham. Loftus said as much for four-fifths of the season, and only this week has changed his tune...
...winning team will probably need three, possibly four touchdowns this Saturday. Yale has a strong team and a five point advantage. But Harvard seems ready--it can either beat itself or the Elis, and on the basis of the Brown tune-up, the latter looks better
...while in running melodic notes, builds up a sweet and lyrical strain, noodles it into a lowdown mood, adds a contrapuntal voice, suddenly lashes into a dissonant mirror-inversion, then subsides into a completely disconnected rhythm that momentarily garbles the beat. The listeners lose all contact with the original tune, but they can dimly perceive other things: a favorite forgotten song, a hymn, a twinge of sadness or an insolent snicker...
...hands off the piano. When the family moved to a ranch house near Ione, southeast of Sacramento, the cowhands used to gather around evenings to listen to the boy play, and sometimes Dave's father would pick up his harmonica and with Dave run through every cowboy tune that they could think...
Cadillac & Ford. Their technique is getting smoother all the time. Explains Brubeck: "Everything we play is superimposed on the tune, and each chorus is superimposed on the one before it. If you don't goof, you're obliged to keep going farther out all the time." Both Brubeck and Desmond habitually venture into keys that are entirely foreign to the one they are supposed to be playing in, for they are firm believers in what musicians call polytonality. Some tunes, like On the Alamo and Let's Fall in Love, stimulate the Brubeck crew...