Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
...marveling alumni wondered if they had hired a magician. But it was not magic but music that turned Stanford into a winning team. An accomplished pianist once headed for the concert stage, Coach Shaughnessy works out his plays to music. Basis for his system is a waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point where the linesmen (likewise counting one-two-three) have opened a hole. The whole team nod their heads in waltz time...
Finally I'd like to mention the heartbeat of this collective cuthusiasm the rhythm section. Count Basic may not be your favorite orchestra, but you'll have to go far to find a rhythm section as completely sensitive to the ensemble attack and phrasing, as the Count's. Remember that with four men Jo Jones on drums, Freddic Green on guitar, Walter Page on bass, and Basie himself on piano--the experiment of using the section as a solo unit was first carried out. Listen to the release choruses on records like Doggin' Around and Jumpin' at the Woodside...
...tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata and Just for Laffs and both guitars take all the honors (VICTOR)... Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Sullivan and Pete Johnson, are among the eight-beat pianists featured in DECCA...
...starts worrying about his heart, he must literally put himself in his doctor's hands. For the diagnosis of heart disease still depends as much on a doctor's manual skill as on his instruments. The doctor feels a patient's pulse, listens to the rhythm of his heartbeat, estimates his blood pressure, measures his heart through X-ray pictures, and records on a graph the electric currents which result from its contraction...