Ragtime, the new music invented by black musicians, was shaking up the straightforward rhythms of the previous century and syncopating them irresistibly.
Although their strong riffs and fairly straightforward rhythms kept his compositions within the definition of rock, they were most interesting when they meshed with other styles, including bebop and Texas country blues.
The music is pared down and straightforward: slow rhythm-and-blues vamps and gleaming 1960's-flavored pop.
There's so much there, so many different causes and curiosities: cooled-out electric funk with singers, nearly classical solo-piano études, blizzarding jazz-rock, Afro-Cuban rhythms, straightforward extensions of Bud Powell and the jazz mainstream.
Indeed, they focus on the most linear, straightforward segment of the rhythm track, which gets looser and wilder at other points in the song.
It's rhythms are straightforward: spend profits made from ticket sales on expanding and improving your zoo.
(Omni, one CD, $20.99) JON CARAMANICA PETER GABRIEL: 'SO' The Stax-Volt soul echoes of the hit single "Sledgehammer," a new willingness to write straightforward pop structures, snappy rhythms and the big sounds of Daniel Lanois's production made Peter Gabriel's 1986 album "So" a Top 10 album.
The story is told very much from Mark's point of view, quiet and focussed, a little melancholy, and the repetitions build up a prosaic, straightforward mood, but also a certain rhythm, I hope, and a feeling of authenticity.
Polyphony (simultaneous melodic lines), monophony (melody without harmony), and rhythm are explored in a straightforward manner in his Polifonica-monodia-ritmica for seven instruments (1951).
Smokie Norful uses the Stevie Wonder-style vocal turns, stripped-down funk and downtempo ballads of current rhythm-and-blues to carry straightforward gospel messages; when he sings "He's All I Need," he's talking about Jesus.
