These aren't wrong, exactly, but they are far closer to Evans than Ellington, and suggest ways of articulating harmony in a blocky and unmusical fashion, one divorced from the idea and emotion of the original song.
Born and raised in Chicago, Mr. Threadgill gravitated early to the boogie-woogie he heard on the radio, teaching himself a style of pianism that articulates harmony through rhythm.
However, in melody-dominated homophony, one voice, often the highest, plays a distinct melody, and the accompanying voices work together to articulate an underlying harmony.
While the guitars and rhythm section chug along, articulate keyboard and vocal harmonies from Finn's brother Tim give a straight forward pop song memorable shading and colour.
Many of Fleisher's ideas about articulating rhythm, melody, and harmony come straight from his memories of Schnabel's classes, which took place in a famously over-upholstered apartment on Central Park West.
And these cover versions reward the ambition of the original songs, draping them with stateliness: the arrangements are meticulous with guitar harmonies, highly articulate in the rhythm section, plumped out with church organ, finely detailed to a funny or frightening degree.
Despite its moderato tempo marking, the cool, stern first movement has restless energy and startling shifts of harmony, conveyed with articulate grace in this splendid performance.
Mr. Marsalis is an exact and articulate four-mallet player, shaping the harmony throughout by dampening bars with hand or mallet, keeping tight control over the sustain pedal for maximum variety of sound.
Music analyst Alan Pollack praised "Hey Jude," saying, "it's such a good illustration of two compositional lessons how to fill a large canvas with simple means, and how to use diverse elements such as harmony, bassline, and orchestration to articulate form and contrast".
This trend has driven the need for universities to focus on clearly articulating and developing their brand, and developing harmony within the brand architecture.
