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...That said, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee deliver a mood-setting masterclass of drones and strums and Coltrane’s harp, fleshed out by guest tamboura and harmonium, engrosses....
...Vicente Archer on double bass and Bill Stewart on drums provide inspiration and support, and the guitarist’s commanding form makes each bend, whine and gentle strum count....
...And bassist Mendenhall, impressive throughout, developed a downbeat rumination of slurred notes, firm lines and sonorous strums....
...Dan Winshall’s strum and counterpoint bass solo was the highlight, delivered with a finesse that almost mastered the crowd....
...One minute, silence was broken by a single piano note followed by flutters of flute and a quiet strum from double bass....
...Moreno introduced “Dark Purple” with gorgeous strums and lines and delivered a probing solo that hovered above ballad tempo....
...The walking bass lines, slurs and nonchalant strums remained, but now they uplifted songs from Jacobean England and Mexican-American Texas....
...Meanwhile, Coxon’s guitar textures play a major role in its musical depth, with deft flecks of distortion and vibrant tremolo strums....
...Mission Creep (the title alludes to his new venture into music and perhaps puns on his role in the national-security-terminology-heavy TV series Homeland) opens gently with the folksy strum of “Down on the...
...The piece begins with a couple of strums on the sitar and short, soft phrases on the flute: it’s like a tentative encounter between the two instruments as they slowly become acquainted with each other and...
...The performance began with two quiet strums, a moment’s pause, and the distinctive whine of bottleneck blues guitar....
...The Amazonian folk tune “Nozani Na” came next, also from Potter’s recent CD, but now introduced by somnolent strums of Colley’s double bass....
...Then came “A to Z”, a love song with a pretty melody, gentle picks and strums from Law’s guitar and a sonorous solo for double bass....
...The evening opened with sparse hi-hat twinned with bass drum beats and strums of guitar echoing in space — the guitarist’s glides, slurs and strums were etched with precision and enthralled all night....
...Halvorson’s “Survival Fetish” came next, with guitar strums sampled into a sheen of sound and effects pedals blurring complex angular lines....
...The self-interrogation is uttered almost immediately amid the introductory strum of an electric guitar, like the first thudding thought of the morning after the night before....
...generation by generation, explaining at one village that the sorrel we’re about to sample kept their grandmother going to 114, singing along at another as a grandly moustachioed pater familias in a bobble cap strums...
...One unfolds to the eerie strum of a harp. In another, the sweet-faced daughter of a genteel white family calls out in fury at the sight of Peter, summoning adults and a shotgun....
...As the piece develops, a repeated line gets a chromatic twist, deadened strings merge with resonant strums and Frisell adds a single note to a cascading Lage run....
...Here, sparse double-bass strums come with swished-brush support and plangent bowed-bass lines float on a bed of cymbal rolls....
...The first features lyrical soprano sax and strums of bass guitar, the second finds tenor sax swaggering over whiplash percussion....
...Angels strum stringless lutes. The limpid Virgin is ethereal. A single magpie surveys everything....
...Her fifth solo outing, Kingmaker, opens with moody guitar strums and lavish Spaghetti Western orchestrations. It is a handsome soundtrack for a showdown....
...Then “Ay Amor”, originally a ballad hit for the Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel, now delightfully showcases Lloyd’s pitch-perfect flutters and Frisell’s deep-toned strums....
...Hayes fluttered through the keys on breathy alto sax, and Miller captured the thoughtful mood with delicate strums of solo bass guitar....
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