His minor-key sound is echoey and limpid, and his improvisations are somewhat pure, with solos built on continuity, stretching germlike ideas about scale and harmony into giant, flowing strokes.
The whole program at the Ailey Citigroup Theater had a firm structure: starting with a devotional dance of invocation, proceeding to three pieces in which the dancer plays a different character in a particular situation and concluding with a pure-dance solo.
With the guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, so much depends on empathy: his minor-key sound is echoey and limpid, and his improvisations somewhat pure, with solos built on flow and continuity, stretching germlike ideas about scales and harmony out into giant, flowing strokes.
The skits in "Nefés" are interleaved with pure-dance solos; everyone in the twenty-member company got one.
By contrast, the pure-dance solos are not even distillations of the subjects discussed, although Ms. Bausch is anything but a formalist.
The soft riffing behind Steve Waterman's bright trumpet sound on Carefree Days is pure Gil Evans Laurencee's solo virtuosity is showcased on Elegy; and the fast blues New Horizons sets Guy Barker's trumpet and Surman's freewheeling soprano sax whirling amid garrulously crisscrossing scoring for the brass.
Gracefully pealing trumpet figures, stuttering uptempo lines and a sultry glide of swing unleashed a roller-coaster of music delivered with such conviction that when it fell silent for Harish Raghavan to produce a fragile, pure-pitched bass solo, the sense of anticipation seemed only heightened by the possibilities of what might happen next.
I give him more credit than anyone for just pure expression in soloing". Allan Holdsworth was born Aug. 6, 1946, in Bradford, a small town in Yorkshire, England.
Pure flamenco is a solo dance, and yet it is also a community affair.
Khan's solo is pure Kathak, a five-star display of speed, precision and power.
