"It was in that regal bearing that I felt a strong sense of Africa, of his ancestors and of powerful, endless rhythms that are almost as old as a human heartbeat".
But the pop titans may be late to the beach party: last weekend, small upstarts were heaping new styles onto endless summer rhythms to lure the city out from under the tundra.
IN Tom Freston's world, the beat goes on -- an endless, pulsing, driving rhythm that carries him and everyone who works for him along, like participants in the ultimate dance marathon, all facing the same challenge: Keep up or face elimination.
Dafnis Prieto, a drummer and composer, finds endless permutations of rhythm in his state-of-the-art sextet, which includes the trumpeter Ralph Alessi.
It's a vision of New York City music as one big mixtape with an endless supply of rhythms.
In Indian classical dance, there are endless cycles of rhythms and compositions – you need your teacher to unlock the next thing for you.
Led by the pianist Vijay Iyer and featuring the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Marcus Gilmore, the group strikes a balance of cleverly reframed cover tunes and vertiginously propulsive originals, finding endless traction in changeable rhythm.
And the sensuous richness of Ms. Rudner's quality of motion makes me feel, as I have often felt over the decades, that there simply is no greater dancer in the world: the bend of her knees, the lusciousness of her feet, the rippling of her spine, the endless variety of her rhythm — these are, even now that she is in her 60s, without equal.
Just when I was getting the hang of it, beginning to understand the vernacular, the government-speak, i.e., the endless acronyms, and the rhythm of UN life, it was time for those of us without portfolio and those being transferred, to disengage and say goodbye.
Shaking off Teutonic heaviness, he now favors shimmering textures, dancing rhythms, and endless singing lines.
