“It was personality made specific in sound, and the music had a lissomeness and fluidity that jazz has mostly lost.”
“The lissomeness with which he moved hither and thither was most impressive, as was his homicidal ardor when doing what I believe is called tackling.”
“If anything is missing, it's lissomeness, the sort of seductive ease projected by the past Spanish master Alfredo Kraus or the young Luciano Pavarotti.”
