And all that comes filtered through a delicate, precise keyboard touch, producing a chiseled sound when he wants to be loud and a nearly silky rustle when he is accompanying a bass solo in a ballad.

His music can float in the most disarming way; he has such a sure keyboard touch that he can move the music this way and that by hair's breadths.

And he has the kind of keyboard touch in which tones don't so much sound as speak.

Ms. Jones does have a freshness: her voice and keyboard touch are clear and direct.

With a few nimble keyboard touches, they make the beast change its tune and roar.

With brushed, rustling drums, bass alertly lining out the beat and Mr. Mehldau's clean, classical keyboard touch, the group puts its mysteries within an organized, focused experience.

In his 1983 review of the Lawyers in Love album, Christopher Connelly calls the song "an outstanding bit of songcraft with a gutbucket bottom nicely set off by Craig Doerge's jaunty keyboard touches.

But the music overall has a new sense of balance; his keyboard touch is sublimely controlled, and he can be riveting.

He does not stint on beautiful things - major arpeggios, soul-chord progressions, lines that flow and breathe - and his keyboard touch is rounded and gorgeous, a feeling you remember.

But there was always balance; eccentricities cropped up only enough to make you aware of their presence, only to be leveled off by a turn in Mr. Berkman's writing or simply by his hard, commanding keyboard touch.