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You can consult them when you're about to travel to any place that has its own regional culture; when you see the "Buena Vista Social Club" and want to know the history of son; when you want to know what the polka came from or why Yoruban culture is so important or how Western scholars struggled to reckon with African music's idiosyncrasies of time, harmony and timbre.
This harmony lacks the sense of time and movement.
He was an incredibly talented, versatile, gender-bending, glow-in-the-dark genius whose music was so undeniably human and irresistible - a force of harmony in a time of division.
He plays with unabashed enthusiasm for melody: no mazes of harmony or time signature here; the warm, sweet lines ripely tumble out, dictating the band's rhythm as they go. 5. NO AGE: 'WEIRDO RIPPERS' (Fat Cat).
With a depth of imagination and sheer originality that is exceedingly rare, Mr. Nishimura appears to have assembled the elements of music -- harmony, development and the passage of time -- from an entirely new place.
He widened the improvisational boundaries of time and harmony and melody, but he did not reject what had come before, for at bottom he was a conservative, who found new ways of expressing what King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet had said earlier.
Tart and sweet, with a little crunch from pistachios and creamy mascarpone, this harmony of textures takes no time to whip up.
His alert and poised camera captures, with seeming hypersensitivity, deep and hidden harmonies running through great spans of time.
Catch him on the right night and he will slay you, with a floating sense of time, mastery of harmony and that knack for playing the perfect note that only the great ones learn.
