Stylistically, his sound is rooted in the playing of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished tone and balanced phrasing.

In fact, the lyricism has changed, since her burnished tone aims not merely to seduce but also to ponder and probe.

He brings to the role a commanding presence, a sense of solitude and a burnished tone that almost stops the show in This Nearly Was Mine.

A silk-lined Japanese gift basket, worked in a twill, has a deeply burnished tone achieved by exposing bamboo strips to smoke.

A Chicago-born violinist who plays with a burnished tone and searching intelligence.

Ms. Yoshida has a burnished tone, but is not a violinist who values beauty of sound above all other qualities.

The string players trace their genealogy through generations of shared teachers who developed a distinctive burnished tone, almost free of rubato.

He played with a deep and burnished tone and she with a sparkling virtuosity.

A 29-year-old Chicago-born violinist, who plays music from Bach to Berg with an extraordinary burnished tone and searching intelligence.

Andrew Richards, as Pinkerton, produced a burnished tone with a fine ring in extroverted moments.