Sentence examples for elegant swing from inspiring English sources
The waltz had an elegant swing to it and the end of the "Élégie" was played with whispered transparency.
At heart Mr. Wyatt is a jazz drummer, playing elegant swing rhythm on ride cymbals and snare drums.
Lewis Nash is one of the most fluent players in jazz, a drummer (for Tommy Flanagan's trio, among other groups) whose presence certifies elegant swing and pinpoint dynamics.
There is no better evidence of how power has taken over the game than the black-and-white images of the recently deceased Ted Williams and his elegant swing.
At 14, Oscar won a local radio talent contest, and worked in his late teens on a weekly Montreal radio show - and he was also a regular member of Canada's Johnny Holmes Orchestra, playing in an elegant swing keyboard style drawn from Teddy Wilson, Tatum and Nat "King" Cole.
Pianist Gary Motley took the piano chair and lent his elegant swing and facile chops to the proceedings.
And the band, a traditional salsa setup with a five-man horn section and three percussionists — but no drum set — makes hard, elegant Latin swing.
(Chinen) Ben Wolfe Quintet With Nicholas Payton (through Sunday) In advance of his elegant and swinging new release, "From Here I See" (MaxJazz), the bassist Ben Wolfe augments his core ensemble — J.D. Allen on saxophone, Orrin Evans on piano, Donald Edwards on drums — with the trumpeter Nicholas Payton, one of the album's featured guests.
(Chinen) Ben Wolfe Quintet Featuring Nicholas Payton (Thursday through March 31) Ahead of his elegant and swinging new release, "From Here I See" (MaxJazz), the bassist Ben Wolfe augments his core ensemble — J.D. Allen on saxophone, Orrin Evans on piano, Donald Edwards on drums — with the trumpeter Nicholas Payton, one of the album's featured guests.
The dance is set to Miles Davis's "So What" and is a class act, an elegant stylization of swing dancing.
