"I pay no attention to all the warnings," she said with the brassy tone of the terminally irrepressible.

Paul Simon virtually rewrote "Surfer Girl," while Elton John's brassy tone challenged Mr. Wilson as they sang "Wouldn't It Be Nice."

Mr. Ruffins takes on the easygoing persona of a modern-day Louis Armstrong as he rolls through sets of jazz standards with a smooth, brassy tone and gravelly baritone singing voice.

Parvin Klein, Mr. Barrett's colorist, coated her hair with a blue meringue concoction to dim its brassy tones.

Lady Sutton inquired in brassy tone.

The link is the very original music of the Julius Hemphill Sextet, which gives dramatic expression a new name through its brassy tones.

It had been blond for years, as brassy a tone as Louella's huge laugh, and worn big, in a teased and lacquered style admired by TV evangelists.

Mr. McGhee had the big, brassy tone and expansive melodic imagination of the great swing-era trumpeters.

Although only 25 years old when he died, Brown already had revolutionized the sound of the jazz trumpet with his huge, brassy tone and impeccable yet rapid-fire articulation.

Brunettes take on a brassy tone; blondes get bleached out.