Mr. Rouse is unashamed of showing emotion and he swings effortlessly, making the most astounding rhythmic inventions sound simple.

Yet listen closely, and the piano parts reveal bracing rhythmic invention and harmonic complexities, including a volatile chromaticism spiked with 12-tone elements.

Rhapsody in Blue displays Gershwin's gifts of both rhythmic invention and melodic inspiration, as well as his ability to write a piece with large-scale harmonic and melodic structure.

The beguiling harmonic language - agreeable to the ear, full of color and constantly shifting - sustains Mr. Jaffe's lively rhythmic and (especially) textural invention.

Also, not one of their recordings has ever caught the raw energy or the rhythmic invention of the band's live performance.

Given many items retrieved from a recycle bin, within 15 minutes he created a rhythmic invention which he looped through effects with water and rubber bands.

That was the engine that drove the Prokofiev Second, a monstrously demanding work full of brassy, dissonant chordal blocks, acidic themes and undercurrents of rhythmic invention.

Their use of both color and rhythmic invention were what caught the ear.

Somehow their geometries convey the rhythmic inventions of jazz.

"The sheer rhythmic invention of Devine's industrious feet set him well above the fray, and that includes "Riverdance" phenom Michael Flatley, who he left in the dust long ago."