One instrument would take up a phrase, another would echo or challenge it; filigrees enfolded melodic solos; solos and duets emerged from the group.
Little wisps of melodic solo from the piccolo, the first trombone, the solo violin and viola were shaped with care.
Hamilton is well known for his melodic solos.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Severinsen put out a number of albums of jazz standards, over which he performed very melodic solos.
The tambura, a long-necked metal-strung fretted lute used for rhythmic accompaniment as well as melodic solos.
Eric was great at the blues box structure BUT Tony constructed a melodic solo based on the chord progression.
On an oft-quoted take of Parker's signature song, Now's the Time, Davis takes a melodic solo, whose unbop-like quality anticipates the "cool jazz" period that followed.
The guitar solo is also notably different; it is more jazzy and improvisational as opposed to the clean, melodic solo heard on the album version.
He has an unusually economical style of playing that concentrates on great rhythms, superb tone, and very melodic solos.
The ugals play a combination of gangsa parts and cues, melodic solos, and the underlying melody with flourishes.