"I'm proud to be a woman representing country music," a straightforward acknowledgment of the bro-heavy tenor of her genre in recent years.
Bun has a steady tenor voice and carves his straightforward rhymes with precision.
The Australian tenor Glenn Winslade was a good, straightforward Gerontius, perhaps a little too lusty for a dying man but at least never over-scented, with Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Peter Sidhom equally sober as the Angel and the Priest/Angel of the Agony.
At 7 30 and 9 30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; cover, $20. (Chinen) BEN WOLFE QUARTET (Friday and Saturday) The bassist Ben Wolfe spearheads a group committed to a brand of jazz that's straight-ahead but not straightforward, thanks partly to the effort of Jimmy Greene on tenor saxophone, Luis Perdomo on piano and Greg Hutchinson on drums.
A different dynamic surfaces in a special election in a single congressional district in greater Wichita, in which the two contestants are not very well known, and where the default, as in so much of American politics, is a straightforward partisan preference test, R versus D. There is a tenor to politics right now that does not have an obvious way to express itself.
Anyone who has observed the rise of Product Hunt would agree that Hoover's voice has been all over it in everything from the tenor of conversation on the site to the straightforward-but-thoughtful UI design.
Sunday's tenor, Casey Candebat, hails from Louisiana, but his is the big, straightforward Italian sound.
But early in Part 2 the hard-working Mr. Hauck — singing with a tone that is straightforward and attractive for all the ornateness of line — gives way to another tenor, Ian Honeyman, and all bets are off.
And the violinist Billy Bang performed with his sextet, playing the most melodic music of the night: folkish, easy-tempo, straightforward themes, their melodies made alternately piquant and sour in his unison passages with the tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe.
