While the smoothly commercial, 1970s soul-influenced sound of g-funk predominated in hip hop, their 1993 debut album, Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers), offered a minimal, abstract and unsettling melange of rough-hewn beats and eerie piano samples.
"These pianos are a little rough," said the tuner, Adam Michelman, who was fiddling with pliers to repair a B note.
In her Birdland show "Dangling Conversations (Looking for Time and Love in the Digital Age)" Ms. McGovern, accompanied by Jeff Harris on piano and Jay Leonhart on bass, roughs it up, sort of.
Skating to a piano concerto by Rachmaninoff, Cohen had a rough time, completing only four clean triples and having awkward landings on three others.
The recording, a synthesizer track that approximated the sounds of a piano and a vibraphone, was a rough demo for "The Visitors," a work the jazz pianist Chick Corea had written for Mr. Gerstein and his former mentor the vibraphonist Gary Burton.
It was kind of rough, but I just figured out playing the piano the best way I could".
In this album, he essays four early-twentieth-century solo masterworks, each with a strikingly different character: Szymanowski's decadent post-Impressionist "Masques," Hindemith's rough and jazzy Suite "1922," Schoenberg's austerely twelve-tone Piano Pieces, Op. 23, and Stravinsky's ebullient, neo-Classical Piano Sonata.
Diego Amador, from Spain, sang flamenco with the rough, volatile voice of traditional singers, but accompanied himself on piano, detouring into jazz harmonies and classical flourishes.
Story: Piano player Eddie is tickling the ivories in a rough Philadelphia dive bar called Harriet's Hut.
The session atmosphere began to "get giddy" around midnight, when Dylan roughed out "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" on the piano.
