Working first in a trio and then a quartet, in both cases with Mr. Haden, they hammered out an elastic, ecstatic mode of discovery that has since become lingua franca within the postbop mainstream.
Gizzi's machismo makes him an odd candidate for the ecstatic mode, yet he will often modulate from ephemera ("the pack of Winstons on the wire chair") to visionary intensity, praising "the gray-green shadows" that "suddenly dayglo over the rushes".
At this coveted Carlyle gig, Rumer Willis is backed by an excellent band: Danny Weller on bass, Dan Berkery on drums, performing Christopher Lloyd Bratten's arrangements -- but James Sampliner's piano riff on Fiona Apple's "Criminal" simply put her in ecstatic mode.
Mr. Reed's newest album, "Ecstasy" (Reprise 947425-2), and Ms. Smith's latest, "Gung Ho" (Arista 07822-14618-2), also find both performers doing what they do best: ranting, brooding, meditating, philosophizing and praying, in their own way doing whatever it takes to evoke the demonic and ecstatic modes of transcendence pursued by the Beats.
She spoke for their rebel youth at her Wellesley graduation, demanding "a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living" than the older generation ever knew.
As one aide crowed, "He's back!" It's hard to believe that this Hillary is the same Wellesley girl who said she yearned for a more "ecstatic and penetrating mode of living".
They were there for her fiery commencement speech, delivered at the height of the Vietnam War, when she described her class's search for a "more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living" and said that every protest was "unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age".
She will be back in the setting of her 1969 feminist triumph as the commencement speaker who described her class's desire for a "more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living" and who spoke truth to power, chastising Edward Brooke for being out of touch.
They were all seeking "more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating modes of living," as Hillary Clinton put it in her commencement speech at Wellesley, in 1969.
(As a student, she gave a speech endorsing "freedom from the burden of an inauthentic reality" and "more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating modes of living").
On rare occasions, however, a leader can become the object of an intensely personal, almost spiritual desire for cleansing, community, renewal — for what Hillary, in a 1969 commencement speech at Wellesley, called "more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating modes of living".
