Take this description of merengue: "There's no mistaking its crisp, zippy beat, hissed and scratched out on a metal-grater guira in jaunty 2/4 time, or the bubbling triple beat roll of tambora rhythms and sharp twitter of interlocked saxophone vamps".
December 5 , 1931 or December 5 1932 Baghdad, Iraq February 9, 2006 Mumbai, India Nadira (Florence Ezekiel), (born Dec. 5, 1931/32, Baghdad, Iraq died Feb. 9, 2006, Mumbai [Bombay], India), Indian actress who, starred in more than 60 Bollywood movies, particularly during the 1950s and '60s, and was best known for her portrayal of alluring female vamps.
The typecasting persisted, and wanton teens gave way to torrid vamps, which she continued to play (with brief respites) for more than five decades, both on film and on television.
Critic's Choice Michael Douglas vamps pianistically as the bling-laden Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's witty Behind the Candelabra.
As with previous Gilles Peterson compilations, there's a few tracks here that make you wonder whether he listened all the way through, but once past the dodgy vocals and workaday vamps, this two-CD collection of revolutionary US funky free-jazz contains real goodies.
With their predictable dynamics, their Italian house-style piano vamps, their wait-for-it mix moments, their squelchy synth riffs and their basic four-four stomp-beats, trackstracouldould have been created virtually any time in the past two decades.
The Jazzman label's "best of" Jef Gilson – a survey of the neglected French composer/pianist with everything from jazz waltzes to groovesome modal vamps – would take some beating.
The original came in for some heavy criticism for its depiction of women – as vixens, vamps, prostitutes and, more broadly, male fantasy objects – idealised, lusted after but in no way respected.
Meanwhile screen goddess Rita Hayworth vamps it up in many a Hollywood classic in her month-long retrospective at London's BFI Southbank.
Yes, I know the women are either vamps with red lipstick, skin-tight dresses and full cleavage or slightly frumpy, mothers, but it's Sicily, and not a million miles from what you see there!
The backdrops to these narratives and speculations range from churning rock'n'roll vamps, barrages of distorted guitar noise and hypnotic chants, to the shimmering mandolin and viola, caressed with tender breaths of flute, that multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis conjures up for the beautiful "Jesus of the Moon".
