Sentence examples for blue phrase from inspiring English sources

Football fans watching a match on television wouldn't necessarily be surprised to hear the odd blue phrase – but the swearing picked up by BBC microphones all over the pitch at a match in Scotland on Saturday was so relentless that transmission was put back until well after the watershed.

He puts stops and elongations into each tune, making it move like a sleepwalker until a hard blues phrase wakes it up.

None of these are obvious, all-purpose riffs, or simple blues phrases.

The violinist Regina Carter played Duke Ellington's "Imagine My Frustration," making bowed blues phrases sound vocal.

But his solos contained his own focused energy, through repetition and sweet blues phrases.

Mr. Ribot was bolder, bending blues phrases to fit the Peruvian songs.

[cartoon id= a17939"] None of these are obvious, all-purpose riffs, or simple blues phrases.

Adderley was first acclaimed as a stylistic heir to Charlie Parker, although the more traditional Benny Carter's rhythm-and-blues phrasing also inspired his music.

On a springy medieval dance, Garbarek's phrasing grew more rhythmic, and he embarked on a solo jig full of slurred blues phrasing.

But the score's bursts of dance music, and fine trumpeter Ron Miles's blues phrasing, convey the hope that brought about America's unique achievements, too.

But each tune had its own itinerary: into reverberating surf guitar or the bent and speedy blues phrases of rockabilly or the polytonal implications of modern jazz.