The Mississippi singer and pianist Mose Allison has carved out a niche: he's a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues entertainer with a crossword puzzler's sense of humor, and he has had songs covered by the Who and the Clash.
The Mississippi-born singer and pianist Mose Allison has carved out a niche: he's a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues entertainer with a crossword puzzler's sense of humor, and he has had songs covered by the Who and the Clash.
Shawn is sixty-nine now, and his characters speak in the sophisticated rhythms of reasonable people.
He and his producers mingled blues and jazz with the mambo of New Orleans, the urban blues of Chicago, the swing of Kansas City and the sophisticated rhythms and arrangements of New York.
These sophisticated rhythms are played with the drummer sitting, using his hands on djembes, which are goblet-shaped drums that rest on the floor and are supported by the knees, or with the drummer standing, using wooden sticks to play free-standing cylindrical drums like djun-djuns, sangbas and kenkenis.
Hersch rushed to a Parisian bookstore, devoured the collection, and began creating his own Leaves of Grass — an exquisite twenty-song cycle that sets Whitman's beloved poems to a score of gliding horns, sophisticated rhythms, and elegant piano — premiering it at Carnegie Hall in 2005.
His solo work is becoming deep and aggressive, though, dense with drive, heavy beat and increasingly sophisticated rhythms.
If there's a through line, it's sophisticated rhythms and solo voices that can come from any of the trio.
And she comfortably navigated the sophisticated rhythms of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado," which metamorphosed from a fluttering bossa nova to a busy salsa after Latifah told her musicians to "take it up a notch".
Conducted by Stephen Barlow, it reveals defter orchestration and more sophisticated harmony and rhythm.
