We've got Tim Jonze on Tune-Yards! 11.01pm BST OK, for all my caveats, thus has been a thrilling set from MIA. Born Free was amazing – harsh and hard and propulsive.
It's a musical world that seems far removed from the propulsive, hard-edged sound of the scores with which Nyman established his reputation.
(Chinen) MIKE LEDONNE QUARTET (Friday and Saturday) Propulsive hard-bop is the common currency of this group, led by the pianist Mike LeDonne and featuring Eric Alexander on tenor saxophone, John Webber on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums.
At one extreme, the fragmented guitar riffs and echoing noise of Mechanics perfectly conjure a brooding, bruised atmosphere; at the other, the disco pulse of Evil is propulsive and hard to resist.
Even if the dramas and dictates of couturiers and catwalks mean little to you, it is hard to resist the propulsive energy that director Ian Bonhote and co-director and writer Peter Ettedgui bring to the story of a designer whose background, beliefs and gifts were not what one would expect.
But there is no questioning the brilliance of the formula that George and his longtime songwriting partner, Harry Vanda, helped nurture in Malcolm and Angus: a rigorous fidelity to the musical tradition established by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, coupled with the volume and propulsive force of hard rock.
Backed by tenor saxophonist Wilton Felder and keyboardist Joe Sample, Henderson wrote one of the band's signature compositions in the zig-zagging "Young Rabbits," a propulsive blast of hard bop that justified the band's early comparisons to Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
4. THE APEX THEORY: 'TOPSY-TURVY' -- (DreamWorks) An astonishing hard-rock debut: brutish riffs, propulsive polyrhythms, graceful melodies.
It is hard to imagine Mr. Naharin's propulsive dancers in that setting, given their habit of holding nothing back physically or emotionally.
