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This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.
The four images on its cover, for example, dryly sum up the tenor of Stalin's regime.
This new sound prefigured white, California cool jazz, but so had Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for Duke Ellington through the '40s, and so had Lester Young's diaphanous tenor saxophone playing with Count Basie even earlier.
With Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Williams on drums, Davis had a dream team, and the quintet's music is as much a display of their talent as it is of Davis'.
The tenor had issued a statement admitting to having seen her around the place at the Los Angeles Opera but denying she had even interviewed him for her book--let alone participated with him in an "imagined" romance.