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Thursday and Friday at Wall2Wall Jazz Festival, Abergavenny, 1st and 2nd September 2016.

Edit The Jazz Mann 05 Sep 2016
That influence could be heard on the opening piece, the title roughly translating as “The Lighthouse”, a composition that Warren described as being “one of Pascoal’s most beautiful melodies” ... All the elements of Pascoal’s music were here, the beautiful melodies, extreme dynamic contrasts and avant garde flourishes such as competing counter melodies....

Festival review: Piping Live! Glasgow

Edit Scotsman 13 Aug 2016
Piping Live! . Various venues, Glasgow . Rating **** ... They also played a suite by Corelli, a composer who wasn't averse to pinching pipe tunes for his more pastoral compositions ... In contrast, Armstrong gave a frequently astonishing performance on his state-of-the art, double-chantered small pipes, at times sounding like two players as he fingered polyphonic harmonies, counter-melodies and blistering staccato runs ... ....

Let’s Get Deluxe The Impossible Gentlemen

Edit The Jazz Mann 28 Jul 2016
“We wanted to draw on a wider palette of sounds using melodies and counter melodies, interweaving through the improvisations to form a broader narrative as a whole ... The music on Let’s Get Deluxe also reflects Metheny’s influence with its increasingly wide-screen orchestrations and the emphasis on colour and texture as well as pure melody....

Xenia Rubinos

Edit National Public Radio 25 Jul 2016
Rubinos' work contains traces of her Afro-Caribbean roots, but when she and her band do things like use two bassists to play a counter-melody in her song "Lonely Lover," they defy classification ... Credits. Producers ... ....

Viking's Choice: Doe, 'Sincere'

Edit National Public Radio 28 Jun 2016
i. Doe. Courtesy of the artist hide caption. toggle caption Courtesy of the artist. Doe ... It's a significant step up from the punk-leaning London trio's early recordings, produced by Hookworms' Matthew Johnson with sharp counter-melodies between guitars (no bass, thank you) and the tightly braided harmonies of guitarist Nicola Leel and drummer Jake Popyura ... ....

Dierks Bentley Takes a 'Different' Route With Elle King Duet

Edit Billboard 17 Jun 2016
Harding asked at the beginning of the session for a guitar counter-melody under the chorus, and as the work unfolded, he repeated the request several times ... “Finally, I said, ‘I would like a guitar melody under the chorus....

Sunday at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 01/05/2016.

Edit The Jazz Mann 07 May 2016
Here it was ushered in by a delightful and elegant dialogue between Bates on piano and Oliver Leicht on clarinet before the familiar melody eventually emerged ... The second piece began with a passage of solo piano before the introduction of Munch-Hansen’s bass counter melody and the sound of Lobo’s delicately brushed drums....

Wire: Nocturnal Koreans review – abstract pop from post-punk heroes

Edit The Guardian 21 Apr 2016
Their 15th album hails from the same sessions as last year’s acclaimed Wire, but while that set was taut and direct, the eight songs here are more textured, full of counter-melodies and ......

Rita Coolidge On The Men Who Used Her In The Male-Dominated ‘70s Music Industry, How ...

Edit Inquisitr 04 Apr 2016
The New York Post posted excerpts from Coolidge’s new memoir, Delta Lady, in which the Grammy-winning songstress detailed some of her biggest personal and professional struggles in the male-dominated music industry of the 1970s ... Rita claims Gordon, who was Eric Clapton’s drummer at the time, took her “counter melody” to a piano progression she wrote in 1969 and then played it for Clapton ... “Never say never....

Rita Coolidge was muse to rock icons — and this is how they treated her

Edit New York Post 03 Apr 2016
In 1970, Eric Clapton’s drummer, Jim Gordon, composed a gorgeous progression on the piano, and played it for a woman he was dating, singer Rita Coolidge ... Coolidge composed a second part to the progression, a “counter-melody” to the tension of the original’s chords that “built to a dramatic crescendo.” Coolidge wrote lyrics to their new song, which they called “Time (Don’t Let The World Get In Our Way),” and they recorded a demo ... ....

E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren talks his latest solo release and The River

Edit The Examiner 23 Feb 2016
But that's what makes Lofgren great. He's as humble as he is talented and exhibits no qualms about letting his guitar do most of the talking ... David Hens ... DH ... NL ... There was a guy named Bill Singer who was teaching at Kensington Music and we took ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ by Chet Atkins picks The Beatles where you have a bass line with your thumb pick and you finger pick a completely counter melody on top while keeping them completely separate ... ....

MSO Free 1 review: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra fills Music Bowl with Gershwin jazz

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 18 Feb 2016
MUSIC. MSO FREE 1 ★★★1/2. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Sidney Myer Music Bowl Advertisement. February 17 ... There was much to enjoy, including lovely emphasis to counter melody in the second movement, plenty of bounce in the third's underlying accompaniment and excellent control of its multiple musical threads ... ....

Family life: Gran and me at a CND rally, One Day More from Les Misérables, and cheggy bread

Edit The Guardian 06 Feb 2016
Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes. Snapshot. The look of love at a CND rally in 1985. This photo was taken at a CND rally in Hyde Park, October 1985 ... Her five great-grandchildren also adore her ... Grace Rowley Playlist ... That song would lure us from our rooms and we’d traipse downstairs as if in a trance, until I had taken the role of Javert, my brother became Jean Valjean and Mum piped in with the counter melody of Cosette ... 1....
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