rich-toned

He can play the daylights out of full-on postbop or explore north-Euro ambience, but he calls his hard-hitting Karma fusion group his "grunge band" – a misnomer for a rare splicing of rich-toned, pipe-like themes, fiercely guttural up-tempo tenor improv, Arabic and Irish music, and tight grooving.

This week's new live music 2011

The excellent cast also included the rich-toned mezzo Margaret Lattimore as the jealous Presendia, Eve Gigliotti as the suicidal Ruth, Kristina Bachrach as the daughter Lucinda, and Kevin Burdette as the pontificating Prophet.

Stifled Voices Heidi Waleson 2011

Ms. Larmore brought a rich-toned mezzo to Gertrude's guilt (wraith-like makeup and a wig that gave her an abnormally high forehead added to the effect), James Morris's gravelly tones were well suited to Claudius's brutal nature, tenor Toby Spence sounded youthful and passionate in the brief role of Laërte, and bass David Pittsinger was a suitably weighty presence as the Ghost.

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

Ms. Larmore brought a rich-toned mezzo to Gertrude's guilt (wraith-like makeup and a wig that gave her an abnormally high forehead added to the effect), James Morris's gravelly tones were well suited to Claudius's brutal nature, tenor Toby Spence sounded youthful and passionate in the brief role of Laërte, and bass David Pittsinger was a suitably weighty presence as the Ghost.

Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

Ms. Larmore brought a rich-toned mezzo to Gertrude's guilt (wraith-like makeup and a wig that gave her an abnormally high forehead added to the effect), James Morris's gravelly tones were well suited to Claudius's brutal nature, tenor Toby Spence sounded youthful and passionate in the brief role of Laërte, and bass David Pittsinger was a suitably weighty presence as the Ghost.

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

Ms. Larmore brought a rich-toned mezzo to Gertrude's guilt (wraith-like makeup and a wig that gave her an abnormally high forehead added to the effect), James Morris's gravelly tones were well suited to Claudius's brutal nature, tenor Toby Spence sounded youthful and passionate in the brief role of Laërte, and bass David Pittsinger was a suitably weighty presence as the Ghost.

Melancholy Dane, Pedestrian Score Heidi Waleson 2010

Reprising her award-winning role from San Francisco, Michelle Jasso was a rich-toned Lady Macbeth when singing, but not always clear when speaking, the orchestra's churnings tending to overbalance her.

Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do 2010

He hung his hat up for himself beside a green-trimmed hat of straw in the wide, rich-toned hall.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

He will perhaps turn round by and by, and in the meantime we can look at that stately old lady, his mother, a beautiful aged brunette, whose rich-toned complexion is well set off by the complex wrappings of pure white cambric and lace about her head and neck.

Adam Bede 2004

There is one who always gives a series of infinitely beautiful, soft, rich-toned whistles just before the first light of the dawn shows in the sky, and one at least who has a prolonged and very lovely song.

Travels in West Africa 2003