| 释义 |
ˈriffing, vbl. n.
[f. riff v.2 + -ing1.]
The action or fact of playing riffs.
1936Harper's Mag. Apr. 570/2 ‘Jamming’, ‘cat-time’, ‘swing’, ‘riffing’, ‘getting off’, ‘going to town’, ‘ragging’, ‘gut-bucketing’, and all the rest are names for the hot performance, which is the heart and soul of jazz. 1949L. Feather Inside Be-bop vi. 42 Jo Stafford's arrangement of The Gentleman is a Dope began with four bars of unmistakably bop riffing. 1958G. Boatfield in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz xxiv. 310 These are extraordinary and unique tracks, with Dodds making soaring and at times agonizing music against the sombre riffing of the brassmen. 1976A. Murray Stomping Blues vii. 104 The process of riffing (from the verb, to riff) refers not only to making riff phrases..but also to improvisation in general. |