"I also fondly recall America's own great tenor, Richard Tucker, who sang 'Ballo in Maschera' with me when I was a youngster.
Ms. Garbus uses looping devices to stack up layers of her own percussion, tenor ukulele and voice — a matter of thorough planning and precise execution.
The college-age fan (also named Josh and sharing Mr. Groban's Feb. 27 birthday) startled the star and the audience alike with his own sonorous tenor, harmonizing seamlessly enough that Mr. Groban looked momentarily dumbfounded.
At first interested in creating sound-based art installations, Lange worked with computers, keyboards, samples of records and his own warm tenor.
It's this thing where you're supposed to turn the lights off, smoke a joint, and just go away for a minute.
Then he layered on violin solos, guitar parts (switching instruments mid-song), whistling, glockinspiel and his own slyly plaintive tenor.
The music is fresher, rawer, more thorough and seemingly more personal, and you can hear the stripes and streaks of his own sound, on tenor and soprano saxophones.
His own playing, on tenor saxophone as well as flute, is its own gallant enticement, and he'll be backed by an able cohort: Greg Gisbert on trumpet, Michael Weiss on piano, Noriko Ueda on bass and Winard Harper on drums.
His own sound on tenor saxophone has grown calmer and stronger as he has moved into his 40s, and his quartet's playing contains a lot of up-to-date information about the practice of jazz in New York.
Chapin said his own love of tenors--and all opera--comes from Melchior.
