When at only 21 Mr. Bedford played Hamlet at the Liverpool Repertory Theater, Gielgud sent him a 10-page letter ("on both sides of thick note paper") of advice.
Sometimes the music turns assertive and declamatory, with melodic ideas unfolding in thick, note-crammed, textured chords, harmonically ambiguous yet grounded.
The bassist, George Mraz, worked on thick, resonant notes all night.
Then the thick, brassy notes of "Call to the Post" sounded from Sam Grossman's bugle.
But listen closely and you hear inner voices colliding and astringent textures stacked thick with notes.
In a solo break he'll play his thick, rounded notes in a slow, scale-based procession; what he's doing will seem ingenuous, almost naïve, until at a certain point its beauty clicks in.
The playing shows deep concentration: the rhythm section is as quiet as a mouse until it's time for Mr. Haden to step forward with a few thick, woody notes.
The digital version of this set is cheaper, but then you won't get the stickers, the temporary tattoos, the DIY ornament, or the thick liner notes that include an essay by Mr. Stevens called "An Examination of the Christmas Tree Fetish".
The first meditation begins with the motif of the Father played in heaving blasts, followed by a repeat of the theme played ominously on the pedals as transfixing chords hover above in Messiaen's distinctive brand of harmony: thick with notes yet somehow grounded and organic.
In two knees, a line that was less than one millimeter thick was noted anteriorly.
