If her pristine enunciation, intense concentration, meticulous phrasing and sultry lower register are all Horne trademarks, the influences are fully integrated.
Rather than suffering from a deficit in perceptual abilities, autists experience the world too intensely and so take refuge by turning inward, hence his phrase "intense world theory" to explain the disorder.
It's a half-hour long (and in dim sound), and it features Coltrane in two solos, one that's five minutes long and the other that runs nine minutes, and both of them reach ecstatic and frighteningly intense crescendos, in phrases that sound like a soul baring itself to the universe.
Saturday night's Rdio launch was like a physical iteration of what the phrase "intense hotel-takeover party" sets off image-wise in your brain.
Note, in both cases, the intense physicality of the phrasing — the rapturous throwing of body and soul alike.
A group that had fallen into some lazy routines is markedly more focussed in pitch, unified in phrasing, and intense in feeling.
He carries his elegance with a sweet, charming, boyish enthusiasm — until he dances, when those qualities become transformed by music into marvels of phrasing and intense absorption.
This classic song came in the middle of Part 2, and found Ms. Wainwright at her most intense and also, in phrasing, at her most personal.
Kissin's playing has many of the broad characteristics of the so-called "Russian school": the big-boned seriousness combined with fluid virtuosity, the beefy tone, the careful layering of contrapuntal voices, the singer-like phrasing and intense, emotional melodic cantabile.
Yet there is the constant infusion of emotion in the lightening of a tone, the extension of a pause, the intense pressure within a phrase.
Using a small, intense voice, he curved phrases, bent notes and improvised about the crowd, talking about El Duque -- the Yankee pitcher Orlando Hernandez -- who was in attendance.
