We used to play a style called peckin', broken phrases … nobody does that any more".
His romantic style of improvising featured broken phrases, free accenting, and chromatic harmonies and depended upon virtuoso technique, all much like the style of the great innovator Charlie Parker.
In fact, she speaks just enough English to serve as a kind of Orientalist doll who chirps cute broken phrases when Anglophones pull an invisible string.
Bernie McGann Bernard Francis McGannn), (born June 22 , 1937 Sydney, Australia died Sept. 17, 2013, Sydney) Australian jazz musician who played broken phrases that flowed together into rich arches of melody, with a hard, true sound on his alto saxophone.
Coltrane wasn't yet the meteoric inventor that he'd become after his six-month stint with Monk at the Five Spot, but his sound is searching, his tense rhythms and broken phrases pregnant with far-reaching ideas.
Near the end of that sonata, with a solemn march in the left hand and frisking triplets in the right, he found in Schubert's broken phrases an intensely moving demonstration of a man rethinking ideas and changing his mind.
June 22 , 1937Sydney, Australia September 17, 2013 Sydney, Australia Bernie McGann Bernard Francis McGannn), (born June 22, 1937, Sydney, Australia died Sept. 17, 2013, Sydney), Australian jazz musician who played broken phrases that flowed together into rich arches of melody, with a hard, true sound on his alto saxophone.
Finally, Mr. Teitelbaum gave a performance that was more or less complete in itself rather than looking for the gaps to be filled; it forced Mr. Parker into a secondary role for most of the set, playing broken phrases and long tones.
Reminiscent of small bones or shards of pottery, these poems often consist of single words or broken phrases; it's up to the reader to perform the archaeological task of imagining what they might once have been.
The melodic tropes were normally broken into phrases that were repeated in performance (as aa, bb, cc,…) by alternating choirs.
