These early recordings were of ballads and country dance tunes and featured the fiddle and guitar as lead instruments over a rhythmic foundation of guitar or banjo.
Their vocal techniques range from operatic purity to spluttering glossolalia and on to pop inflections, but they have in common a tendency to use their own voices not merely as lead instruments but as structuring principles.
Mr. Motian, the drummer whose reputation goes back to Bill Evans's old trio as well as to Keith Jarrett's American band in the 60's, loves changing texture in each bar, and he has a curious approach to old tunes by Monk, Mingus, Parker: there are four lead instruments in the band, sending out a dense thicket of lines and counterlines.
Mr. Motian, the great drummer whose reputation goes back to Bill Evans's old trio as well as Keith Jarrett's American band in the 60's, loves changing texture in each bar, and he has a curious approach to old tunes by Monk, Mingus, Parker: there are four lead instruments in the band, sending out a dense thicket of lines and counter lines.
Mr. Motian, the great drummer whose reputation goes back to Bill Evans's old trio as well as Keith Jarrett's American band in the 60's, loves changing texture in each bar, and he has a curious approach to old tunes by Monk, Mingus, Parker: there are four lead instruments in the band, sending out a dense thicket of lines and counterlines.
Similarly, there is a choice of six lead stations, each containing three lead instruments which can be mixed.
Mr. Rochereau is known for expanding the sebene, the instrumental break in which a lead instrument improvises off the backup guitarists' repeated unison phrases; the typical effect is a gently prolonged climax that subsides into Mr. Rochereau's vocal embrace.
"I love the violin as a lead instrument".
"The lyra, which is bowed, is a lead instrument," White said.
The Campbell Brothers turns the steel guitar into a swooping, wailing lead instrument in gospel songs.
It turns the steel guitar into a swooping, wailing lead instrument in gospel songs.
