Beginning in the late '50s, a good deal of that allure came from the compositions of Bley's then-wife, a composer and pianist born Carla Borg who, using the Bley surname, would become an enduring jazz progressive in her own right.
The compositions are all original, a contrast to the MGs' previous record, McLemore Avenue, an instrumental re-imagining of The Beatles' Abbey Road, and they touch on a range of styles, from agitated funk to thick and humid swamp-rock songs like "Fuquawi" (audio), which features Cropper at his most devastating.
The earnestness of attitude, the grimness of the humor, and the careful compositions will perplex audiences too young to have seen Bergman movies and sadden, mostly by force of nostalgia, those devoted moviegoers who were raised on little else.
" The show's best moments exposed the essence of Nico's compositions: The excellent Joan Wasser, who performs as Joan as Police Woman, tapped the raw anguish in "My Heart Is Empty" and "Ari's Song, " while Jonathan Donahue of Mercury Rev delivered with muted joy the stark poetic imagery of "Evening of Light.
The subsequent analysis will reveal the precise chemical and mineralogical compositions present in the powder, giving scientists clues as to the likely conditions under which the rock formed.
Many of the poses and compositions were probably borrowed from Chinese ink paintings, and here they come together in a dynamic composition of black birds clustering on land and flying in midair.
He wrote few of the group's numbers, but his compositions often set the tone of alienation and frustration for which X Japan was revered.
They crave the sense of connection, the inherently communal experience, of hearing real people breathe life into centuries-old compositions: the venerated composers, modern-day musicians and generations of music-lovers, all united in the expression of raw human emotion through art.
For all its strengths, "The Next Day" stumbles under the weight of several indistinct compositions that can't quite be lifted by the band.
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The film's attraction (such as it is) isn't found in story, but in decoration: the blue-filtered chiaroscuro and etch-y comic book compositions, how the snow glints under the streetlights.
And there are noteworthy compositions on the programs that merit a place in the standard repertoire.
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And he would be very pleased to know the reactions to his compositions being performed beyond this nation.
One of Mr. Alterman's two compositions in the set, "The First Night Home, " is a ballad for the ages.
It took Mingus longer than Ellington to be recognized by some other musicians for the stature of his compositions.
He passed off some of his compositions as the work of faux-18th-century composers and waited many years before revealing that they were actually his own.
The overall result is a cramped and distressing movie that is somehow eased and opened out by its rich soundtrack and, above all, by the grace of its compositions.
Mr Marsalis, quartet and guests perform a varied programme of original compositions, the kind of infectious tunes, rhythms and improvisations that have epitomised jazz for much of its history.
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Brubeck took California's "West Coast Cool" school and with mathematical intellection removed it even further from the sweaty dance rhythms of jazz gone by: The album's compositions were in tricky, decidedly dance-averse time signatures.
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The commercial offshoot of Iamus, US-based Melomics Media, is offering the computer-created compositions at a similar rate to what it would cost to download a track from iTunes, Google Play or some other online store.
These two giants of fashion photography worked during fashion's heyday the 1950s to the early noughties and their work includes iconic portraits of the models of the day, whether Penn's artistic compositions with his wife (one of the first recognized models) or Avedon's shots of supermodels for Versace campaigns during the 1990s.
Away from Brubeck he rarely played any of the pianist's countless compositions.
Music Publishers and songwriters oppose the deal as well, fearing that these royalties may diminish their share of the public performance royalties for compositions.
Often, images of Buenos Aires icons such as tango singer Carlos Gardel grace the oval centre of fileteado compositions, and they are almost always accompanied by a phrase or popular saying, whether humorous, emotional or philosophical.
At first she attributed this to the range of high harmonics used by Mozart, but her later research, which manipulated the frequency levels of various compositions, showed that frequencies alone were not responsible for this physiological response.
Debussy and others tried to mimic the sound of the gamelan orchestra in their classical compositions.
Mr Till said the requiem is the third in a trilogy of compositions for London which began with Oranges and Lemons.
" The first of these umpteen promised compositions was "Push Button Bertha.
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The string-laden, folkloric compositions heard on both last year's excellent Landings and now on Crow Autumn are deceptively song-like fragments tangled in a thicket of sound.
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