Occasionally he formed short-lived big bands; he finally found lasting popular success in 1967 74 leading a band of 16 young musicians, which played jazz arrangements of rock and pop music.
It is in the Suzhou style, named for the Chinese city renowned for old gardens that feature natural arrangements of rock, water and plants, as well as architectural elements and displays of literature.
In past encounters Kristjan Jarvi's Absolute Ensemble has generally been a classical chamber orchestra with an endearingly eclectic programming style in which standard repertory, new works and arrangements of rock songs rubbed shoulders, sometimes in seamless suites.
Tonight at Columbia University's Miller Theater you can hear a concert by Scratchband, what the Absolute Ensemble calls itself when the program includes arrangements of rock, funk and jazz-influenced works.
Below the windows, the hotel garden, with its ultra-simple and soigné arrangements of rock and tree, floated in the mists that crawl off Kyoto's waterways — for it is a watery city, crisscrossed with shallow rivers and cascading canals, dotted with pools as still as coiled snakes and mirthful little waterfalls that sound like Japanese girls giggling.
Grottoes were often constructed from a fanciful arrangement of rocks, shells, bones, broken glass, and other strangely assorted objects and were commonly associated with water (see nymphaeum).
Dr. Sirkin was an expert in the stratigraphy, the layered arrangement of rocks, of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras, a vast expanse of time from 225 million years ago until after the most recent ice age.
The pattern of the design may be interpreted as rocky islets in a sea, but the garden's appeal lies essentially in the charm of its relationships and the arrangement of rocks such that all 15 are not visible from any single vantage point.
However, they cannot be relied upon to find smaller and less obvious traps and unconformities in the stratigraphic arrangement of rock layers that may harbour petroleum reservoirs.
Keith Emerson was inspired to take up the Hammond by hearing McDuff's arrangement of "Rock Candy".
