He has a husky voice and a band that can put a subtle jazz swing into his twilit ballads.

The trio played not only blues, but also delighted the crowd with jazz, swing and other rhythms.

Somehow his nervous system has absorbed older, earthier models of jazz swing and the blues cry.

He'll be performing with a 13-piece group, playing Latin jazz, and it's a chance to hear how jazz swing influenced Afro-Cuban music.

And Afro-Caribbean drive and jazz swing - two different idioms - are equally vital.

Anyone looking for traditional jazz swing will still be left confused.

Halfway through, the song lifts out of Cuban rhythm into jazz swing, with more arranged harmony, and he savored the shift.

Mr. Sanchez is carrying Latin jazz toward the millennium, testing new ways to integrate Caribbean rhythms and jazz swing.

And because Monday was John Coltrane's 70th birthday, the group played his compositions, some with funk beats, some with jazz swing.

Brian Hinton says, "This is a rock musician singing jazz not a jazz singer though the music itself has a jazz swing."