Sentence examples for classy band from inspiring English sources

A clutch of spooky swamp blues evoke his early days as the Night Tripper, elsewhere a classy band help the doctor drawl through strutting funk and anguished blues.

It's complemented by trenchant playing from a classy band that includes alto-saxist Ray Warleigh, trombonist Barnaby Dickinson and pianist John Taylor, with Italian vocalist Diana Torto functioning as an extra saxophone, soloing dazzlingly on Enowena.

Maybe they lack the flash muscle of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who visited the festival last year, but Cleveland is the classier band.

This is an immaculately recorded, intimate set in which Kassé Mady is backed by a classy acoustic band of n'goni, balafon and kora (from the celebrated Ballaké Sissoko).

Rennie plays acoustic guitar and her classy backing band includes African musicians and members of the London-based jazz outfit Led Bib.

Backed by a classy acoustic band comprising a string quartet, a second acoustic guitar and Hohnen's double bass, he started out like an Aboriginal answer to Nick Drake, with a soulful and emotional treatment of what could have been a sturdy western folk melody, but with lyrics that dealt with the importance to the Gumatj nation of the orange-footed scrubfowl.

Here, she was backed by the classy house band led by multi-instrumentalist Kate St John and including Neill and Callum MacColl, who paid tribute to their father Ewan MacColl with a rousing Tunnel Tigers, his song about Irish workers building the Blackwall Tunnel.

Collier had been a big influence in British jazz for almost 40 years when he celebrated all that and more on the 2004 LJF, in a dazzling display of updates and new work that, as ever, emphasised his encouragement of great improvisers - trumpet legend Harry Beckett, and saxophonists Chris Biscoe and James Allsop were among the soloists in a classy big band.

Mr. Bland's synthesis of Southern vernacular music and classy big-band arrangements made him a stylistic pioneer, but whatever he accomplished by way of formal innovation ultimately derived from his underlying faith in the emotional power of the blues.

She was performing in a classy nine-piece band on new arrangements of songs from her Fishbone album.

But on many of the tracks here they act as a classy, sensitive backing band for Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, Rachid Taha, or the Mauritanian star Noura Mint Seymali.