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  • I don't know why such a small thing sticks with me, but I remember him spending time with me helping my slides ( "glisses" as he said) sound more authoritative.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • I don't know why such a small thing sticks with me, but I remember him spending time with me helping my slides ( "glisses" as he said) sound more authoritative.

    Mandolin Cafe News 2009

  • Film composer James Horner's Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture aurally seduces best when it's balancing its alien synth layers and aggressive percussive slams with its organic instruments, sprite-like keyboard glisses, and other-worldly voices.

    Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Alicia Keys, Robin Thicke, Avatar, and Pixies, Plus Conversations with Julian Lennon and Precious Composer Mario Grigorov, and more 2009

  • "Dixon's often astute novelty lyrics and shrewd arrangements were topped off by Sumlin's imaginative, angular, taut attack, frequent glisses, maniacally wide vibrato and percussive chords, all drawn with an exaggerated brush," the producer Dick Shurman observed of Mr. Sumlin's relentlessly inventive playing in his liner notes to a 1991 boxed set of Howlin' Wolf's work for Chess Records.

    NYT > Home Page By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN 2011

  • Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture aurally seduces best when it's balancing its alien synth layers and aggressive percussive slams with its organic instruments, sprite-like keyboard glisses, and other-worldly voices.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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