Mr. Lewis economizes at the piano, and his laconic style of phrasing and harmony places him in the same tradition as Ellington, Basie and Monk.
Mr. Brecker's influential style of phrasing comes in bunched-up huffs of sound, something like the saxophone equivalent of James Brown's singing; for the amount of through-composed music that's on "Wide Angles," the mannerism gets a little tiring.
Furthermore, by using subscales derived from one source instrument, the comparison is not influenced by methodological differences between the instruments, e.g. related to style of phrasing or the number and type of answering categories.
My guy had a particular style and vocabulary and way of phrasing things.
Today, at a Texas incubator in Austin, Sen. Cruz continued on the topic in his typical style of folksy phrases and dramatic pauses.
Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, King began with a reference, by the style of his opening phrase, to President Lincoln and his enduring words: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Based upon a suggestion from a teacher at American Theatre Wing, he developed an unusual approach that involved imitating, as he sang, the style and phrasing of other musicians — such as that of Stan Getz's saxophone and Art Tatum's piano — helping him to improvise as he interpreted a song.
He admits freely that, for the purposes of the most recent album, As Time Goes By - a collection of 30s standards, many of which feature on the current tour - he borrowed from the style and phrasing of Billie Holiday in her 30s period, and her arranger Teddy Wilson.
Swedish hip-hop dancer Tommy Franzén may be more emotionally reticent than some of his rivals, and have a less conventionally beautiful body, but he is a fantastically intelligent dancer with an intuitive grasp of phrasing and style.
His fullness revolutionized the writing of Latin; he is the real creator of the "periodic" style, in which phrase is balanced against phrase, with subordinate clauses woven into a complex but seldom obscure whole.
He sets a lively, plausible scene and sustains a high level of exactitude and style in his phrasing.
