Word: vibrato
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...vividly describes the ending of the concerto as a significant part of this reflection. “The cello is raging—it’s reaching for the high A with the orchestra supporting it. It sustains a G-sharp for eight measures in fortississimo with intense vibrato. It never reaches the A, though...
Like many young jazz singers nowadays, Dobson, 26, is trying for a mellow pop-jazz groove à la Norah Jones. Her plangent, almost vibrato-free voice rides over a mélange of island rhythms, bossa nova and folky acoustics, mostly in new songs she has co-written. They go down as easily as frozen margaritas, never more beguilingly than when she slips in scat syllables like "dit-doo, die-yah-da-doo" in Four Leaf Clover, or simply "ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh" in Cold to Colder...
...late 1940s, Davis teamed up for the first of his epochal collaborations with arranger Gil Evans. They assembled an unusual nonet, including a tuba and French horn, and began experimenting with a new kind of writing. The goals: dense, rich sonorities, a "cool," vibrato-free style of playing and a tight meshing of the charts and soloists (among them baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and trombonist J.J. Johnson). Result: a reshaping of the modern jazz aesthetic...
...with their favorite tracks. Blue Box Toys' b2 division this week introduces the MiJam line, pitched to musicians ages 8 to 14. The drumsticks connect to an iPod and let kids add extra percussion to a song. The stringless guitar features a strumming pad and a bar for vibrato effects. Price Drumsticks, $30; guitar, $40 Available September
...warm pink oval--softly lit, windowless and strangely familiar. A few paces in, the room narrows to a bright seam of a doorway that resembles the more unabashed works of Georgia O'Keeffe. "The entryway is a womb, and the door is a vagina," says Fonda in her startling vibrato. "I had it designed so that you're sort of delivered into the loft. Don't you love...