Like Keith Jarrett, Metheny is that rare jazz musician who combines a pop-composer's instinct for an anthemic melody with a virtuoso ability to play extended spontaneous solos without repeating himself.
To brighten tables on dark winter days (without trekking to the florist), try Villeroy & Boch's new flower-shaped dinnerware, which combines a Pop-Art-inspired cutout design in jazzy colors like bubble gum pink, taxicab yellow and baby blue.
Long ago, boys and girls, back when there were hardly any television channels, people used to watch shows that combined a little pop music, a little serious music, a little dance, a little comedy, even a little drama.
Ms. Purl combined a modest folk-pop voice with grand dramatic concepts that she sometimes strained to realize.
The album endures because it combines a great pop sensibility with deeper themes that are the concern not just of adolescents but of people of all ages, such as the passage of time: "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day / You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way".
PROFILE of contemporary classical Californian composer John Adams, 53... Writer compares the juxtapositions in Adams's music to the landscape of Northern California as seen from Highway 1... Adams is not the only composer who has combined a classical education with a pop sensibility, but he is the one who has made the synthesis stick.
By Alex Ross The New Yorker, January 8 , 2001P. 40 PROFILE of contemporary classical Californian composer John Adams, 53... Writer compares the juxtapositions in Adams's music to the landscape of Northern California as seen from Highway 1... Adams is not the only composer who has combined a classical education with a pop sensibility, but he is the one who has made the synthesis stick.
Here at the 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt SF hackathon two-man hack team, Ray Ho and Mark Watson, showed off a simple but promising concept that combines $3-a-pop Bluetooth iBeacons with restaurant software Clover to make the process of waiting on tables more efficient.
Only Geffen has combined an exquisite sensitivity to pop-cultural fads with the cast-iron stomach of a businessman.
Based on Mr. Scheving's 1991 book, "Go, Go, LazyTown!," the show combines a peppy Euro-pop soundtrack with comic-book graphics to create a three-dimensional virtual world that, Mr. Scheving said, "blends Moulin Rouge, Jackie Chan, James Bond and Sesame Street".
