BOBBY SHORT lowers his famous voice, his improbable, inimitable liquid sandpaper voice, as if the gleaming black Bechstein grand that dominates his living room might overhear.
Maimonides thought it improbable, however, that the voice of God was ever heard in prophetic vision, and he held that this category is purely hypothetical.
A native of Babylon, N.Y., Mr. Ruedeman is a devotee of '80s pop and soft rock, a classical saxophonist and a most improbable vessel for a voice that can perfectly channel everybody from Steve Perry to Axl Rose.
In a less enthusiastic review, Pitchfork Media's Jayson Greene called it a "joy" to listen to Bilal "warp his voice into improbable shapes", although he felt the album lacks any prominent melodies.
Williams makes observations about being drunk and having sex, he gives his opinion of the president of the day (Reagan; not good), he decorates proceedings with a range of voices and improbable situations, slaloming around some readymade good lines.
The notion of the silent ocean having a voice seemed so improbable.
Jason Donovan - elsewhere in dull voice as an improbable saccharine daddy - shows up here as M-A in Bo-Peep mode.
"I will always be grateful for those few curious minutes when I sat with my head cocked like Nipper the Dog at the improbable sound of my own voice coming out of a radio speaker," he said.
With that shimmy-swagger, those lips that could purse like a lady's or smirk like a gangster's, those raunchy wisecracks spoken in a voice from some improbable zone, where white Brooklyn met black Memphis.
Mr. Hvorostovsky, the Russian baritone, was in splendid voice, singing with the improbable smoothness and cultured delivery that still make listeners roll their eyes in wonder.
