Word: up-tempo
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Dance &; Flow. A reserved, almost introverted personality onstage ("I have something of an inferiority complex"), Getz begins playing the moment he sidles up to the microphone. Once into the music, he relaxes, sketching with the sure, spare strokes of a Japanese brush painter. In an up-tempo number such as Like Someone in Love, his figurations fairly dance around the melody; in Here's That Rainy Day, they flow with the melting warmth of an after-dinner brandy...
Even as composed by professionals, liturgical jazz is inevitably something of a special taste, and too distracting for the average congregation. Moreover, the up-tempo rhythms of modern jazz chafe against the stately language of the Roman Missal or the Book of Common Prayer. Yet many churchmen are hopeful that the gap is being closed. "Jazz today is a valid form of musical expression," says the Rev. Alva Cox, who has promoted liturgical jazz on the National Council of Churches' television series Look Up and Live. "Our conviction is that, far from being a musical form simply for entertainment...
BLACK PEARLS (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane is the featured soloist, and he zooms boldly off to do some fine, abstract skywriting at Mach 1. Meanwhile, back at the piano, Red Garland waits to deliver earthbound but agreeable interludes of up-tempo swing...
FUNNY GIRL (Capitol) is actually a fourth album triumph for Barbra Streisand. She sings nearly all the Jule Slyne-Bob Merrill songs, from the ragtime Cornet Man and up-tempo Don't Rain on My Parade to the ballads that are a fever chart of her love affair, from its first tender moments (People) to the dawn of doubt (Who Are You Now?). Danny Meehan is a lively musical addition as a vaudeville hoofer, but Sydney Chaplin sounds as if he needs to be wound...
...Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and a gift of a tennis racket and a pair of sneakers. While in Australia Buddy even acquired an agent-as the price of playing on television in Sydney. When...