He uses a harsh tone and an unperturbable rhythmic thrust, tearing through tunes with real aggression.

The band, rough and raw, used riffs to make its way through tunes.

Jazz at the Philharmonic enshrined the jam session, the loose-limbed aggregation of players running through well-known tunes, for a large audience.

Ives, though he never found the audience he imagined, addressed it through tunes representing shared musical experience, and blended or contrasted these with his own thought.

At his second set on Tuesday night at Sweet Basil, he charged through tunes, taking short solos that were unruly with information.

Then, the clown, who graduated from the conservatory of music in Rome, plays the people, pointing the way through several tunes.

Where most jazz musicians bull their way through tunes, leaving notes as a motorboat leaves a wake, Mr. Lacy mulls each phrase over and over.

He sat in the shade of a great spreading oak, trilling on his flute, running through old songs, tunes and ditties.

He keeps up what is almost a musical stream of consciousness through tunes of glory, military drumbeats and romantic ballads.

Mr. Cunningham's younger brother, Phil Cunningham, joined the group on accordion, and they thrilled audiences by zooming through traditional tunes.