What Is Art Music?
A lot of brass can counsel something bold and a woodwind dominate piece might be suggesting a softer, more refined temper. Lowlands of Sorrow is set to a 6/8 rhythm, opening with Parker’s bass taking half in a repeated four-bar lick in D-flat minor before the horns and drums enter. Although Lewis has a wealthy tenor tone, it is a vibratoless, tubular sound, very like those of Rollins or Coltrane, except that at instances his sound has extra of an “edge” to it, a bit of a rasp which he provides or removes because the spirit strikes him. On this…