Sentence examples for playing elegant from inspiring English sources

At heart Mr. Wyatt is a jazz drummer, playing elegant swing rhythm on ride cymbals and snare drums.

The program reached back to the Renaissance, with Paul O'Dette playing elegant sets of variations for lute.

The atmosphere was dreamlike but charged with purpose, as guests streamed in accompanied by a guitar-and-bass duo playing elegant melodies.

Like most French dramatists, Anouilh was obsessed by classical myth: a way of giving the audience a familiar story while playing elegant variations upon it.

He prowled Fela-like across the stage in a mustard-coloured jumpsuit, singing and declaiming through Fela's angry Shuffering and Shmiling and Colonial Mentality, and playing elegant and incisive saxophone, spurred on by an eight-piece brass section that included the British jazz players Jason Yarde and Byron Wallen.

What would happen if we played elegant quail the calls of Gambel's quail?

Shabazz Palaces, the new project of Ishmael Butler, late of Digable Planets, played elegant, spare songs that bridged the digital and the organic.

(Petrusich) SONDRE LERCHE (Sunday) This 25-year-old Norwegian with a kind tenor and a light touch plays elegant, melodically rich but sometimes overly coy folk-pop.

Then he joined the band to play elegant Motown guitar parts behind the Velvelettes: the four surviving members (of five) in pink rhinestoned dresses, harmonizing on la-las and doing synchronized moves.

(Sisario) SONDRE LERCHE, DAN WILSON (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) A 25-year-old Norwegian with a kind tenor and a light touch, Sondre Lerche plays elegant, melodically rich but sometimes overly coy folk-pop.

On Sunday afternoon at Town Hall the woodwind quintet Windscape joined the Orion String Quartet to play elegant accounts of six of these substantial works in Baron's arrangements, a program that was part of the essential and affordable People's Symphony Concerts.