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It's confusing that footage appropriated for their video for recent single "Round the Moon" actually comes from a soft-toned Swedish film from 1970 (A Swedish Love Story).

Witch house and the musicians taking us back to the future Tim Jonze 2010

While Ms. Rosnes is always a celebration all by herself, this quartet with bassist Peter Washington , drummer Lewis Nash and the soft-toned saxophonist Rich Perry is laying down some of the most exquisitely mellow, late-night jazz I've heard in many a moon.

Ringing in the American Revolution Will Friedwald 2011

Warne Marsh, the tenor saxist partnering him on these classic sessions from the late 1940s and mid-50s, died in 1987 – an improv purist largely neglected back then as an oblique and soft-toned performer unfashionably at odds with the fiercer free-jazz and fusion sax sounds dominating the jazz world.

Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh: Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh 2010

Thereafter, the concert proceeded in this manner, with the Gypsy musicians supplying their soft-toned authentic melodic textures as a cultural counterpoint to Brahms's familiar refinements in the selected Hungarian Dances.

Gypsies Play What They Inspired 2009

Vahid Salemi/Associated Press Mr. Ahmadinejad's inauguration speech appealed for national unity and denounced foreign interference, but was unusually soft-toned for the normally bellicose Iranian leader.

Ahmadinejad's Inauguration Day 2009

And this Mrs. William Wylder just announced by soft-toned

Wylder's Hand 2003

On the conference-room wall hangs a soft-toned watercolor of the new Miami arena.

Rudy Wants a Stadium Built on West Side--And So Do the Jets 2000

She loved that sanctum -- the big oak table strewn with books and magazines, the soft-toned oriental rugs, and the shimmering green curtains between which one could catch enchanting glimpses of Paradise River and the sunsets.

Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

The post commander and Faye came over from the office one morning and said it was their wish that I should take entire charge of the music for services in church, that I could have an orchestra of soft-toned instruments, and enlisted men to sing, but that all was to be under my guidance.

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

If you are young in years, immature in taste, and limited as to bank account, you will doubtless go in for a frankly modern room, with cheerful painted furniture, gay or soft-toned chintzes, and inexpensive smart floor coverings.

The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood