Working together as Faustus, they offer something different, thanks to their distinctive blend of subtlety and attack.
The steps, formations and movement phrasing harness all of the company's best, most distinctive qualities: dynamism, musical subtlety and technique.
Elements of jazz, rock and Minimalism permeate the score, although the musical subtleties that grab you are the product of Mr. Andriessen's acute and distinctive ear.
The tacos at these chains are a giant leap above the mass-produced fare shoved over the counter at places like Taco Bell, but they lack the distinctive kick in the teeth you get at street-side taco stands or the homemade subtleties of tacos served at places like La Serenata or Alegria.
Vague, refracted hints of torch-song blues or Herbie Hancock-style organ jazz appear now and then, providing some of the most distinctive moments, and a couple of the pieces build to noisy peaks with impressive subtlety.
Yet by the time Tribe imploded a decade later, Tip was a rap icon, his voice one of the genre's most distinctive instruments, his records emphasising a singular ability to meld muscular beats with the complexities and subtleties of jazz.
When the literary talent is genuine, the scientist who possesses it can reveal the scientific mind -- its distinctive modes of thought, its passions and limitations -- from the inside, as it were, with more subtlety and intimacy than literary amateurs of science can.
His mix of ensemble subtlety and rootsiness made him attractive to jazz players of many persuasions, and he worked in the groups of the distinctive saxophonist Clifford Jordan, with the singer Billy Eckstine, and, sometimes, in a trio of his own.
