In concert, Mr. Santa Rosa is an affable and easy performer who can move his band into rhythmically charged performance by turning up the intensity of his singing.

And his rhythmically charged backup of drums (Sebaastian deKrom) and bass (Geoff Gascoyne) keeps kicking him into higher gear.

Mr. Wenholdt hasn't been around long, but he's turning into an exceptional player, and he regularly adds vinegary notes to his long and rhythmically charged lines.

Regina's vehemence toward servants and family members at the start of Act II takes the form of rhythmically charged monotone; it is an inspired passage.

Musically, their idiom is a polished, rhythmically charged folk blues, with the bulk of the songs sung in close two-part harmonies.

Now almost 78, she is in remarkable vocal shape, and her gritty, rhythmically charged singing has lost little of its punch.

In his younger days Mr. McLean was identified with the aggressive, rhythmically charged offshoot of bebop known as hard bop.

Taking a syllable or a phrase, she rides it to the ground, kicking it forward with spiraling, rhythmically charged twists and turns.

Repeatedly, they move into rhythmically charged duets tinged with martial arts and filled with highly manipulated partnering.

Mr. Chestnut revels in swing and the blues, and his performances are always rhythmically charged, the perfect thing for the museum's Soul Connections series.