Over the course of the decade, Coleman had been pushing rhythms toward variability; here, with Denardo's propulsive but freewheeling drumming, he reached full fluidity, never losing the beat and never sticking to it, either.
Though he may not have been the very first tap dancer to use the heel tap to push rhythm from the 1920s jazz beat to the 1930s swing beat, he certainly was the most influential; generations of dancers learned his style.
Mr. Green gamely accepted this premise, pushing the rhythm forward on Charlie Parker's "Dexterity".
With percussionists, two drummers, a disc jockey and more, they stack up beats, riffs and echoes, pushing danceable rhythms toward abstraction.
Government should work decisively toward promoting a framework of legal incentives for bio-based eco-design; otherwise, metaphorically, "there is not carnival without the samba singer who pushes the rhythm".
Best had been seen playing in The Casbah with his own group, the Black Jacks, and it was noted that he was a steady drummer, playing the bass drum on all four beats in the bar, which pushed the rhythm.
He was regarded as a steady drummer, playing the bass drum on all four beats in the bar, which pushed the rhythm, and was known in Liverpool at the time as being "mean, moody, and magnificent" by female fans, which convinced McCartney he would be good for the group.
Many of the tracks in the soundtrack use "cascading rhythms" in both the foreground and background sounds, as well as a bass rhythm, pushing the limited sound hardware of the Nintendo Entertainment System further than in Final Fantasy II.
He immediately topped it with a two-handed ostinato, high syncopated chords that encouraged Mr. Iyer to poke through and twinkle from within, bouncing his own syncopations into the rhythm, pushing elsewhere.
And as stubborn or strange as the music sounded, he was trusting himself to sculpture it -- through repetition and accenting and pushing against the rhythm section -- into something viable.
