Sentence examples for playing lines from inspiring English sources

"Well, pianists can play like a whole orchestra, so not in that sense, but at least in the melodic sense, playing lines.

The trombonist Robin Eubanks deftly dipped and cut around Chris Potter on tenor and soprano saxophone, both of them playing lines that propelled themselves with clipped, fleet rhythm.

Playing lines that amble or leap, skip or circle, stroll or dart, Mr. Dibala had an infinitude of ways to turn the two-chord vamps of soukous into hooks.

Each piece fooled the ear many times as oud, guitar, accordion and Mr. Threadgill's flute or saxophone -- all playing lines -- seemed about to settle into lovely euphony, only to move on to more irresolution after a bare second of agreement.

Mr. Montgomery set an example that several generations of guitarists in jazz have been trying to emulate ever since: he was a tough, dogged improviser, a master blues player and a developer of several techniques (fingerpicking lines with the thumb, playing lines in octaves) that have entered jazz's lingua franca.

Money may be the bottom line in the booming business of sports, but it often doesn't explain what happens between the playing lines.

"I decided not to play chords anymore, just to play lines," she said.

He also had percussionists play lines that were traditionally for melodic instruments, and vice versa.

In Barcelona, Malkmus played lines on guitar that were brilliant solos, or brilliant pastiches of solos, or both.

In the first piece Mr. Vu and the electric bassist Stomu Takeishi played lines that were carefully entwined.

I am not convinced that the absence of Wilkinson from their playing line-up will prevent Toulon from securing a third European Cup in a row.