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- adjective music Lacking a
drummer
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Examples
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"Sotto Voce" Aum Fidelity, 2006 announced a stunning drummerless concept, including Mr. Fowlkes and anchored by "human beatbox" Napoleon Maddox.
Brooklynite Writes Jazz With a Poet's Pen Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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He has brought a country twang into the jazz vocabulary, first by creating music that had a distinctly rural, open-field sound, then in recent years by creating a variety of chamber groups — often drummerless ensembles highlighted by violins and cello — to expand this unique approach in a variety of ways.
With a Country Twang Martin Johnson 2010
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It is unfair to presume that the voices of Dash/Lily and Nick/Nora are Levithan and Cohn's signature style, repeating similar character descriptions and prop-like topics such as the drummerless band, when I have yet to read their second novel, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
Caitlin Colford: Required Holiday Reading: Dash and Lily's Book of Dares Caitlin Colford 2010
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It is unfair to presume that the voices of Dash/Lily and Nick/Nora are Levithan and Cohn's signature style, repeating similar character descriptions and prop-like topics such as the drummerless band, when I have yet to read their second novel, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
Caitlin Colford: Required Holiday Reading: Dash and Lily's Book of Dares Caitlin Colford 2010
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It is unfair to presume that the voices of Dash/Lily and Nick/Nora are Levithan and Cohn's signature style, repeating similar character descriptions and prop-like topics such as the drummerless band, when I have yet to read their second novel, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
Caitlin Colford: Required Holiday Reading: Dash and Lily's Book of Dares Caitlin Colford 2010
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It is unfair to presume that the voices of Dash/Lily and Nick/Nora are Levithan and Cohn's signature style, repeating similar character descriptions and prop-like topics such as the drummerless band, when I have yet to read their second novel, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
Caitlin Colford: Required Holiday Reading: Dash and Lily's Book of Dares Caitlin Colford 2010
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Beginning with the habanera beat dancing beneath "Douce Ambience," the bass and rhythm guitar of Mr. Christopher's drummerless quartet announce a strong rhythmic emphasis.
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As the pianist and bandleader in a drummerless trio, Krall accomplishes the difficult feat of providing both the rhythm and the melody for every song.
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'It's simply and solely because we're all, poor wretches, dumb -- dumb as butts of Malmsez; dumb as drummerless drums.
The Return Walter De la Mare 1914
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Excellent for home use, and actually very usable in drummerless jam sessions down at the pub.
Word Magazine - Comments idiotbear 2010
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