glissandos

I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues.

Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

There is booze and cocaine and gunplay galore but also a great deal about "glissandos" and "compilation vocal tracks" and other such recording arcana.

Heartache Anthem Eddie Dean 2011

I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues.

Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

The singers had a hard time performing glissandos; they were so careful it always sounded like scales.

Stravinsky Crashes the Party Stuart Isacoff 2011

I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues.

Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues.

Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video) Michal Shapiro 2011

Viola and cello retune their bottom strings in microtones, creating unexpected new chords, and the music is filled with trills, tremolandos and glissandos; the goal, Haas says, is "to glide freely through unknown aural landscapes".

This week's new live music 2011

There wasn't any trick of the harp trade that Levalier missed as she glided through iridescent glissandos or swept through rippling arpeggios.

In performance: KenCen Chamber Players 2010

All around his steadfast melodies, Davell Crawford was a tsunami of improvisation: surging ostinatos and florid filigree, tremolo chords and keyboard-spanning glissandos, excess as exaltation.

Jazzfest: More from The Stomp - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

All around his steadfast melodies, Davell Crawford was a tsunami of improvisation: surging ostinatos and florid filigree, tremolo chords and keyboard-spanning glissandos, excess as exaltation.

Jazzfest: More from The Stomp - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008