His songs, like Brian Wilson's, are harmonically sophisticated yet immediately hummable.

Both are dedicated students of the post-bop jazz tradition who have also been deeply influenced by classical music, Brazilian music and harmonically sophisticated pop.

He's harmonically sophisticated and rhythmically driving.

He was harmonically sophisticated, and his solos, with a tight vibrato, were unceasingly intelligent.

They don't have one great lead singer, but three of the singers swapped lead, at times sounding like a harmonically sophisticated gospel quartet or a doo-wop group.

Although Shaw tended to play more harmonically sophisticated lines and is remarkably inventive, they are both trumpet masters".

It moves with quiet consistency and effectiveness through a harmonically sophisticated world.

The saxophonist Lew Tabackin often evokes something of his luxurious, harmonically sophisticated sound.

It may not be as harmonically sophisticated as modern classical music or jazz; it may strike some as simplistic.

Harmonically sophisticated and well plotted, his solo sounds preconceived.