But the piano stayed in the foreground, alternating composed material with leaping, racing, splashing improvisations.
In 1946 Williams landed a songwriting contract with Acuff-Rose Publications and began composing material for singer Molly O'Day.
"To blog" is the act of composing material for a blog.
Most bands don't play regularly enough to find that magic, cohesive, intuitive ideal in which the significance of composed material just melts away.
His band members can seem as if they are just following their instincts, but at a subtle cue they snap into a piece of composed material.
There were only two breaks for applause in 90 minutes, and around the composed material Mr. Douglas kept the improvised combinations volatile.
His band members can seem as if they're just following their own instincts, but at a subtle cue they snap into a piece of composed material.
Primarily a Nashville-based writer who composed material for mainstream country singers such as George Hamilton IV, Loudermilk worked in a variety of styles and over the decades was recorded by artists as diverse as Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Cash and Marilyn Manson.
Mr. Iyer said he was asked to produce something large-scale, and he delivered: The work employs 18 musicians, who will both perform composed material and take opportunities to create in the moment while on the Kasser stage.
The members of the jazz quartet, even when playing composed material, seemed semi-independent from one another, using completely flexible rhythm and flowing nuances of touch and feel; this music felt mysterious and evolving.
