Sentence examples for usual piano from inspiring English sources

He usually performed with his own groups, which featured Gary Burton's vibraphone in lieu of the usual piano.

Bowler Hat Soup includes 16 tracks and features Leonard playing everything bar a swordfish trombone, from the usual piano and guitar to a grill.

"I can't confess to having much of a musical background other than the usual piano lessons," Dr. Kenny said before the concert, admitting that she was way out of her element.

Goodman, for example, performs a duet version of the Gershwins' "Oh, Lady Be Good!" with Teddy Wilson on harpsichord (instead of his usual piano), while Billie Holiday is heard, accompanied only by a piano, singing a rubato version of her anti-lynching anthem, "Strange Fruit," barely a month after her original recording was released.

According to all the spectroscopic data, the molecules adopted the usual "piano-stool" geometry with a monodentate N3 triazolopyrimidine ligand.

This latest hit from our favorite aristocrat is called "Mumble Man," and leans a little more to the tech-house spectrum than Duke's usual piano-house euphoria but don't take the title too literally.

For his part, Monk takes obvious delight in having the Carnegie concert grand under his fingers, instead of the usual nightclub piano, and his playing expands accordingly.

The audience cheered whenever Ms. Apple approached her usual instrument, the piano, but for this set, her piano parts, with their thick chords or elaborate counterpoint, were largely set aside.

This fine saxophonist works this week with a slightly different lineup than usual: Jason Moran on piano, Drew Gress on bass, Damion Reid on drums.

According to the Web site www.a30a.com, there have been almost three hundred recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations, using everything from the usual harpsichord or piano to guitar, accordion, handbells, and saxophones.

Alone, as usual, at his piano, Mr. Sudnow wrote, he found himself "counting off the time with a care I had never taken before... a care for the others with whom I would have been coordinating my moves, for that bass player and drummer who were never around".