Word: uptempo
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...wraith appears in black velvet pants and jacket, a little lace jabot at her throat. The mordant chords purl from the back of the stage, and she becomes an authentically possessed figure. On the slow numbers, the words are not sung; they seem to float from her throat. The uptempo songs could survive almost any rendition, but when Elly sings them, she charges them with alternating currents of energy and melancholia. She does not interpret the songs, she becomes their owner-and their tenant. In Carousel, she sings in a lazy, wheeling style-until suddenly the merry-go-round lurches...
...LIGHTHOUSE '68 (Pacific Jazz). Pride of The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., the Crusaders have plenty to say in this album and plenty of "chops" (technique) to say it with. Their musical message lies in today's mainstream -a blend of hard-rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves along with...
...auteurisme cries for inclusion here. Their pleasant-blending thirds and Nashville nasality give them perhaps the only sound in rock that can carry with genuineness, distinctiveness and positive effect into the field of Christmas carols. As with Elvis, Don and Phil's records were consistently two-sided, with the uptempo line of Bye, Bye Love, Bird Dog, Claudette, Wake Up Little Susie, Problems and Poor Jenny balancing the ballads: Love Of My Life, Devoted to You, Crying in the Rain, Love Hurts, Don't Aks Me To Be Friends, Maybe Tomorrow...
...from both pop and jazz fans, and on this record he demonstrates why. In addition to guitar, bongos, bass and drums, he is accompanied by a distinctively Garner rhythm device that the album cover aptly describes as the "swinging-grunt"-emphatic guttural sounds that express his exuberance at playing uptempo. The effect is to put fresh magic into his renditions of // Ain't Necessarily So, Autumn Leaves and More...
Most gospel singers tend to hitch their style to one type of gospel belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...