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• 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)
• The voice is always in evidence, of course, but it's in public that it becomes shaped, like a piece of music, and one almost consciously listens for all the gilded glissandoes, the curlicues of wit, the velvet pauses.
• The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by people sounding out its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers. Archive 2010-04-01
• The night music of the third movement flickered with spectral glissandos and eerie harmonics.
• After Mr. Goines alighted to the stage and played a solo on soprano, Mr. Gordon climaxed the tune with a glissando and high note, phrased more like a saxophone than a tr ombone. Singing and Swinging
• The singers had a hard time performing glissandos; they were so careful it always sounded like scales. Stravinsky Crashes the Party
• 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
• 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
• The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
• 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