Mr. Rolle, the drummer, asked Mr. Gill: "The Jennifer Hudson version, or the Jennifer Holliday version?" The bandleader job requires fluency in all keys, tempos and styles - and a familiarity with just about every pop tune of the past 50 years.
Last.fm says about the band: "Lyrics play a central and weighty role in every tune — telling stories of the mundane parts of life we all experience sometimes and the tragic or comic actions we take to redeem ourselves.
"The garage night, where I got DJ EZ, Slimzee and Wookie down, was mindblowing because every tune reminded me of being between the ages of 11 and 14.
In many cases, the band or the leader gives the bassist a solo feature on every tune as kind of thanks for being the accompanist the rest of the time, even though the better and commercial-free solution is for the bassist to be an essential part of the ensemble at every moment.
He knows the words to every tune in Phantom of the Opera.
At the end of every tune Mr. O'Neal asked Mr. Rosenwinkel what the next would be and was never rattled by the answer.
Mr. Hoiby was the fulcrum of every tune in Tuesday's set — even those he didn't compose, like "Zieding," a minor-key anthem by Mr. Eger that felt indebted to Reid Anderson's writing for the Bad Plus.
The gig had pulled in an exceptionally rowdy audience, who greeted every tune by sending arcs of lager through the air, and it wasn't just the men who were to blame.
On his live album "The Main Event," he shouts out each song's arranger at the top of every tune, even though few in the audience might have cared.
GreenSky has capitalized on the billions of dollars that Americans spend on home improvement every year to the tune of $315 billion in 2017, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
