Mr. Corea, while backing a soloist, would regularly stop playing, leaving room for the two horn players to indulge in a bit of harmonic exploration.

Far apart as they are, the two pieces share recognizable rhythmic gestures, also the same fearless sense of harmonic exploration.

He intensifies modern jazz's treble solos with racing passage work and carries Monk's harmonic explorations a few steps farther.

Once a jazz musician has mastered the basics of swing and harmony, the doors open and rhythmic and harmonic exploration can fill the rest of a lifetime.

Nicknamed Dizzy because of how he acts during performances, Gillespie set new standards for trumpet players with his innovative rhythmic and harmonic explorations.

Debussy's String Quartet in G minor (1893) paved the way for his later, more daring harmonic exploration.

Weckmann, most of whose music is lost, was a brilliant student of Schutz's who extended his teacher's harmonic explorations unmistakably in the direction of Bach.

Its harmonic exploration is unusually broad for Haydn's solo piano writing.

Mr. Horne mixed be-bop lines with more experimental harmonies, turning one or two chord pieces into harmonic explorations.

He prods Puccini's harmonic explorations and shows us where they might have been leading.