Sentence examples for contemporary covers from inspiring English sources

(Chinen) Rachelle Ferrell (Thursday through Feb. 17) Ms. Ferrell tempers her jazz singing with liberal doses of R&B, on songbook standards as well as on contemporary covers.

(Chinen) Rachelle Ferrell (Friday through Sunday) Ms. Ferrell tempers her jazz singing with liberal doses of R&B, on songbook standards as well as on contemporary covers.

Her latest album, however, a collection of folk, blues, country and contemporary covers with her once-estranged 72-year-old dad Jack, strikes the right chord.

(Chinen) RACHELLE FERRELL (Tuesday through Feb. 19) Ms. Ferrell tempers her jazz singing with liberal doses of R & B, on songbook standards as well as on contemporary covers; hers is an insistently smoldering sort of lyricism.

The sensibility is underscored by the nervous curtain-raising music by Douglas J. Cuomo and harsh, contemporary covers of Coward songs (including "Blues") by artists like Bryan Ferry and Elton John.

The album also included contemporary covers of Babyface's "You Were There", Karla Bonoff's "Goodbye My Friend", and Sting's "Fields of Gold".

A Dahl title in the same series, "James and the Giant Peach," gets a bright, contemporary cover by Jordan Crane, with cartoon panels, a tumbling red-headed boy, and fuzzy lettering that calls to mind a peach.

For example, the contemporary cover albums of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Barbra Streisand are few and far in between.

The duo also contributed the songs "Le Roi D'Ys" and "Banks of the Wabash" (both "contemporary" cover versions) to the 1997 soundtrack to the film The Myth of Fingerprints.

Crumpled in the back of the cupboard, tangled up with six of its contemporaries, covered in Rorschach test-like blotches owing to long-departed leaky biros, its saggy lines seem to suggest the very opposite of the ambition and drive encapsulated by a true fashion purchase.

And when, eventually, the library has all the volumes in a row — their cover design, contemporary back in 1982, now has a classy vintage look — it will be worth it.