Melodically

Fisch clearly understood that not everybody needs to sing, especially when you have the luminous Erica Stephan playing (sadly now the late) Cynthia Weil and the melodically caustic Justin Albinder as Barry Mann.

All-star production from DJ Premier, Irv Gotti, Ski, and Clark Kent propelled the album, along with Jay’s common street ethics surgically placed melodically on the beats.

The three, with the wide-eyed hippy help of Feste, the ‘court’ jester, played melodically and thoughtfully by Deborah Hay (Grand’s ), devise a device.

But the crucial instrumentalist was Alex Castillo, a scrawny kid in a black jacket, white T-shirt and fuzzball haircut whose bass lines were both rhythmically muscular and melodically fearless.

They aren’t as catchy or melodically pleasing as those on 2014 Forest Hills Drive, his biggest record, but they hit harder.

Coltrane was moving toward a more harmonically static style that allowed him to expand his improvisations rhythmically, melodically, and motivically.

He realized that the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale can lead melodically to any key, breaking some of the confines of simpler jazz soloing.

However, this was discouraged by producer Rick Rubin, and he instead built upon Californication's (1999) melodically driven style.

Technically perfect, melodically correct and always in perfect pitch.

This direction continued with the Symphony No. 2, Christmas (1980), which is harmonically and melodically quite straightforward.

While it evolved primarily as a basis for chords, the harmonic minor with its augmented second is sometimes used melodically.