Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the melodies are provided by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil's leading bossa nova composer, who also backs up the lead duo with sensitive piano playing. The result is an eloquent sermon on what the bossa nova was originally all about. The relaxed, almost flat vocal styling of Joāo sounds as if he were whispering in your ear, and it is exquisitely embroidered by the ethereal solos of Getz's lyrical tenor...
SINGERS The Greatest Pretender "File Under: Wilson, Female Vocal" advises the fine print on Nancy Wilson's newest album, Today, Tomorrow, Forever. A timely cross reference might be added: "See Fitzgerald, Ella, Heir Apparent...
...files under Female Vocal are bulging with singers who were once likely pretenders to the "First Lady of Song" title held these many years by the incomparable Ella. At 27, with three LPs high on the bestseller charts and a rapidly burgeoning following, Nancy Wilson figures to be the greatest pretender for a long time to come. At her opening at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove last week, the crowd of 1,000 voted her everything but the deed and title to the place...
John Peakes is a forceful Thomas whose physical and vocal authority allows him to command most of his scenes. But he delivers a why-didn't-Christ-appear-to-me soliloquy with such whiney petulance ("I worked for Him more than all the others, but He only granted peace to them.. When He went to Gethsemane, He only took Peter...", etc.), that the hero's integrity is immediately shattered...
...frantically vocal desperation of the "moderate" Republicans in attempting to stop Goldwater will prove to be like the whimpering of a wet puppy. The "liberal" Democrats will face the same problem in November. There are more of us "nuts," "cranks" and "right-wing extremists" than they think...