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...A vocal vibrato becomes a quivering flute line, a guitar playing pianissimo responds to Callas’s subtle pitch inflections, until the original melody is barely discernible....
...As snippets of melody wound this way and that, pianist Micah Thomas emphasised changes in mood and bassist Matt Brewer twinned double bass thrust with Sumbry’s bass drum beats that were so powerful they...
...Reggae was “kind of monotonous” and “black music being prostituted”, Melody Maker quoted Deep Purple and the Edgar Broughton Band as saying....
...The Countess’s aria “Dove sono” from The Marriage of Figaro, for example, starts like a standard operatic lament but omits a da capo recapitulation of the original melody at the end, allowing the character...
...Prilep girls are all tobacco girls; Skopje girls are all millers; Tetovo girls are all bean farmers. But “Bitola girls, they cure all wounds.”...
...Practical tips based on his own songwriting include picking words at random from a book and setting them to a melody....
...Modest backing beats, foregrounded melodies and passages of singing lead Miller away from rap towards a more singer-songwriterly mode....
...Menelaus becomes Arthur, as in Miller. Truman Capote and Pearl Bailey appear. So does “Jack”, the name of Capote’s partner but also of Jack Kennedy. It’s very clever, sometimes too much so....
...Any thoughts of lack of professionalism were swept aside by the scattering of chords and stark harmonies that supported the opening melody....
...The melody was clear, the voicings fresh and the phrasing delivered with bite. Here the band stretched out, moods and grooves changed and Miller played as though each line had a story to tell....
...Chassol chops up a clip of Cohen reading his poem “The Only Tourist in Havana”, computer-processes the recitation into a melody of sorts, and haloes it with back-up vocals, thereby sapping the words of all...
...They drift in a post-coital languor of hazy guitars, warm melodies and slowly stirring rhythms....
...The album opens with a cover of Marcus Miller’s “Hannibal”, first featured on Miles Davis’s 1989 album Amandla. A long misty intro sets up the theme, and heavy hip-hop beats take the piece to a high....
...It began with growls, slurs and haunting upper register lines before a sweet melody cued the band into a soft-centred waltz....
...His credits range from Michael Jackson and Aretha Franklin to David Sanborn and Marcus Miller....
...Midway through, Miller signalled “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” with two notes from his bass. “We played this for you before,” said Miller. “But we got better.” The bass solo that followed was a killer....
...After assorted awards and two acclaimed albums — both as commercially successful as you might reasonably demand from music whose deployment of melody is married to idiosyncratic song structures and a refusal...
...Mixed Reviews (American Sign Language) Christian Marclay’s silent film about music is made up of sign language interpretations of live music reviews — an investigation into what it means to experience melody...
...that guided Kristofferson’s melody....
...US composer Miller Puckette, for example, is professor of music at the University of California....
...A double-bassist provided the backing for old track “Father Father”, a beautifully sung number based around a lullaby melody, a recurrent musical motif....
...Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared, Stefan Schwietert’s film about Drummond and his work, following in particular the path of his unorthodox global choir The17, which sings music without history, melody...
...Instead the quartet relied on Gates’ winning way with melodies and lyrics. “Make It With You”, “If”, “Baby I’m-A Want You” — these songs were part of pop’s furniture during the early 1970s. Bread?...
...The firebird, a beaky head attached to two streams of diaphanous golden cloth, whirled in the wind to her looping, trilling melody. She was as immaterial as light....
...This return gig at Ronnie Scott’s featured original guitarist Russell Malone and new pianist Donald Vega (founding member Mulgrew Miller died from a stroke in May)....
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