The blues sensibility and swing are two of America's great contributions to 20th-century music.

And I guess because it had a blues sensibility, it was inclusive of more people.

Ms. Carter is enormously gifted, bringing a blues sensibility to her improvisations, and for the rest of the night she was the most effective of the soloists.

The slight bending of the strings, the different attacks of the notes, the rhythmic figures, gave the music its blues sensibility.

Experimental and searching, the music finds jazz in the midst of change, never losing its swing or blues sensibility.

Its deep blues sensibility, the hard riffing, the immediate emotionalism of the music are unchanged by time; it all still works.

His work is improvisationally empty and doesn't swing, there's no blues sensibility, and he hasn't figured out the difference between emotionalism and sentimentality.

Riffs, always informed by a blues sensibility, alternated with lines.

The headlong swing, dry blues sensibility, melodicism and the hurtling lines all end up being more important than harmony.

Mr. Weston may be the most direct descendant of Duke Ellington's spare but emphatic blues sensibility, and his trio displays this message in undiminished terms.