Diddley, whose signature "hambone" beat provided one of the original and most enduring rhythms in rock, built the foundations from which many musicians - including the British invasion bands of the 1960s - have built.
Versatile and enduring, the banjo combines rhythm and melody into a single unmistakable sound that resonates with strength and purpose.
Riley would probably see it differently, and ask us to look for concordances of rhythm and colour and enduring formal preoccupations.
Alas he was elsewhere, enduring Grace Jones hula-hooping to Slave to the Rhythm at the time.
Schooled in piano by his musically gifted mother, he became a jazz man — outwardly square but quintessentially cool — whose genius at marrying spontaneity and unorthodox rhythms with classical forms became an enduring legacy.
Schooled in piano by his musically gifted mother, he became a jazzman -- outwardly square but quintessentially cool -- whose genius at marrying spontaneity and unorthodox rhythms with classical forms became an enduring legacy.
AFTER enduring a reporter's disquisition on Machaut's fascination with iso rhythm, a system involving overlapping rhythmic and melodic patterns, Roland Machold said that it sounded a lot like what his son, Rob, was up to.
One of Mr. Silver's enduring anthems, the song involves a hiccupping piano vamp and an ebullient parade rhythm.
Gospel, blues, African rhythms, protest songs and the joys of harmony are the enduring touchstones of Bernice Johnson Reagon's group of female a cappella singers who never forget to leaven righteousness with pleasure.
Gospel, blues, African rhythms, protest songs and the joys of harmony are the enduring touchstones of Bernice Johnson Reagon's group of five a cappella female singers, who in three decades of performing have never forgotten to leaven righteousness with pleasure.
