They are technicians in an era of melodists and punks, both more appealing on a line-for-line basis than song for song.
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Among the finest melodists in jazz, he has a full-breadth command of his instrument, but his biggest assets are his knack for crisp understatement and simplicity.
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Melodists have run the genre for a decade now; Pop Smoke — with a voice that recalled Lloyd Banks and DMX — punched through that sweetness like a sneering heavyweight.
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YNW Melly is one of the most impressive young melodists working — see "Murder on My Mind" — and even though there's not much material to work with in the verses here, the chorus is bright, effusive and sneakily rich.
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His mouth dropping into slack-jawed blankness, Mr. Gillen taps unnervingly into the silence, one imagines, that haunts this most supreme of melodists, a man held in fearsome abeyance from his own father and from a reactionary society that cannot easily accommodate him.
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Take "Ten," a rhythmic workout from "Life of a Hot Boy 2: Real Trapper" — it's familiar Bankroll Fresh, a sum of small parts adding up to an ambitious whole: We got magazines and you can get your issueWe need mo' liquor, we need mo' SwishersMoney, cars, ménage à trois, new Audemars, new pistolsMight pull up in the Fisker, Polo bucket like a fisherLiving like the mob, fly to Vegas just to ditch youDom Pérignon sipper, cigar clipper, Vuitton slippers Most of the best-known Atlanta rappers of the moment are spacey melodists, be it the deconstructionist master Young Thug or the playground singsong upstart Lil Yachty.
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At the end of the 1910s Mason played with Fate Marable, where he began playing alto saxophone. Toward the beginning of the next decade, Mason was a member of Ed Allen's Whispering Gold Band, and soon after led his own ensemble, the Carolina Melodists (though they had no actual connection to North or South Carolina). For one year, he and the Melodists played on radio stations WIL and KMOX in St. Louis. From 1927 to 1933 Mason returned to duty under Marable, and after leaving his employ Mason began playing clarinet in Chicago and St. Louis bands.
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" 'Bring It On' Musical from Kitt, Miranda, Whitty & Green to Premiere at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre" broadway.com, February 26, 2010Listing alliancetheatre.org Miranda later called Kitt, "one of the best melodists of our generation," and attributed personal growth and education to their relationship. In 2012, he worked on arranging strings sections for Green Day's album trilogy Uno, Dos and Tre.
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Rößler was a collaborator to the Evangelisches Gesangbuch for the Protestant Church in Germany and for the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg. Also as a preacher, Rößler published highly acclaimed ', in which the theology, poetry and history of individual hymnbook verses were worked out. Rößler became known for his portrayal of melodists and poets of Christian hymnbooks. Various biographies have been worked up by Rößler according to historical criteria and today they often form the basis for the short biographies that have been published in all major hymnbooks.
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Ziyodullo Shahidi (May 4, 1914 - February 25, 1985) (/) was a Tajik musician and father of Persian Symphonic Music in Tajikistan. After The Second World War, in 1946, a group of Tajik melodists entered Moscow Conservatory, but only one of them managed to graduate from that School of Music. He was Ziyodullo Shahidi (1914–1985). Merging maqam with symphony, he formalised modern Tajik music and became known as an outstanding figure of this form of synthesis. The reconciliation of different cultures as an idea goes back to the philosophy of Abu Ali ibn Sina (born in Bukhara in 980), known in Europe as Avicenna.
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Emphasis in original. The Telegraph wrote, > Few Melodists have gained more celebrity or been so universally admired, ... > The many effusions from the pen of this gentleman independent of his vocal > powers, is sufficient proof of his being a man of considerable talent and > originality—you should hear him sing his national air "on a wing that beamed > in glory" [and it would be] unnecessary for us to enlarge on his merits as a > vocalist—for his Melodies display a feeling of Patriotism which attracts the > attention of every beholder.Bedford Enquirer, quoted in the January 18, > 1834Harrisburg Pennsylvania Telegraph. Quoted in Cockrell, Demons, 98.
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The first recording of Chloe was made for Columbia in Los Angeles in September 1927 by singer Douglas Richardson, a vocalist with ties to Charles N. Daniels; it was followed by another Columbia by The Singing Sophomores made in November. The first instrumental recording of Chloe was made by the All-Star Orchestra for Victor, with a vocal chorus by Franklyn Baur, in December 1927. This is identified in the Victor ledgers as "the Fud and Farley Orchestra, directed by Nat Shilkret," indicating the probable participation of Fud Livingston and Max Farley. Shilkret recorded another arrangement of it for Victor with his Rhyth-Melodists in March 1928.
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Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times that the experiment succeeded because both artists were masterful melodists, finding the record "less tangled and more directly songful than Mr. Coleman's recent albums with Prime Time". Song X was voted the nineteenth best album of 1986 in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. In The Penguin Guide to Jazz (2004), Richard Cook and Brian Morton said the more adventurous recordings on Song X showcased the jubilant playing between Coleman and Metheny, who not only "powered his way through Coleman's itinerary with utter conviction, he set up opportunities for the saxophonist to resolve and created a fusion with which Coleman's often impenetrable Prime Time bands had failed to come to terms."Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed.
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Edison Records "Diamond Disc" label, early 1920s, featuring the Happiness Boys Dave Kaplan was usually the team's pianist on records. Kaplan was in charge of Edison's popular music division (and led the company's house dance bands "Kaplan's Melodists", the anagrammatical "McNalpak's Dance Orchestra", and "Atlantic Dance Orchestra"), but his contract as Edison's bandleader did not restrict his piano accompaniment work on other labels; he was so identified with Jones and Hare that they were jocularly referred to as "The Happiness Boys with Dave Kaplan at the Piano" in a single phrase. Fannie Heinline, regarded as the best American female banjoist at the turn of the century, made guest appearances on The Happiness Boys as banjoist and vocalist. By 1928, Jones and Hare were the highest paid singers in radio, earning $1,250 a week.
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