Sentence examples for steady swing from inspiring English sources

In the past Mr. Peterson's left hand interacted ingeniously with the rhythm-section instruments, providing some of the accents for his steady swing and adding color and subtlety to his accompaniment.

A devoted and erudite student of jazz history, Ms. Sherman is a stylistic compendium of Billie Holiday (the sultry, lingering phrasing), Blossom Dearie (the wispy little-girl tone) and Mildred Bailey (the steady swing underpinnings and aura of unshakable optimism).

It's not a situation in which the drummer's steady swing underpins whatever the pianist is doing; that did happen sometimes at the Jazz Standard on Friday, but it wasn't where the action was.

For the last five years Mr. Wess has often played with the young Russian-born guitarist Ilya Lushtak, who doesn't use a pick and puts rough, effortful jolts into his solos, keeping a steady swing rhythm.

Ipsos Mori asked that question throughout the 1980s and 1990s and, as fairytale weddings gave way to the divorces of Charles and Andrew, there was a steady swing away from the steadfast royalist "worse off" vote to a position of indifference.

Shawn Levy is the author of Rat Pack Confidential and the forthcoming Ready, Steady, Go!: Swinging London and the Invention of Cool.

Oren Ambarchi, the Australian musician who lived in New York for a while 20 years ago but is now too rarely seen here, played a detailed, startlingly intense set of drones and pulsations with the drummer Joe Talia, who kept a steady, almost swinging cymbal beat.

A subtle undercurrent of dry humor, along with Mr. Reid's steady sense of swing, kept the mood from deteriorating into weepy self-pity.

What animates his brittle but serviceable pop-jazz singing, along with a steady sense of swing, is his mischievous sense of humor.

Over the steady and strengthening swing of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra -- with Mr. Bowers as a guest on piano -- they played lavishly, in multiple choruses, taking time to extend and refine their thought, their language and their sound.

And his demeanor is so calm and his swing so steady that Day, a 23-year-old who has played all three rounds with McIlroy, said he would be difficult to catch on Sunday.