When playing the piano, she can astonish, merging intensely rhythmic ideas taken from African traditional music with her knowledge of the jazz tradition.

Even when he played with time, his note placement always made even the oddest rhythmic ideas push the music forward.

Most other rhythmic ideas came from ragtime and its precursors, like the dotted eighth note series.

The second movement starts with an Allegro which uses a small rhythmic idea.

Foreman continues, "The rhythmic idea which followed the second subject returns and drives the music on over a great span of frenetic action.

The band slowed down, picked up his rhythmic ideas and then was on its way.

Sticking to banal rhythmic ideas reinforced the one-dimensionality of the performance.

Mr. Richards barely soloed, but when he did, each phrase had a spindly power and was based in rhythmic ideas.

That's where he got some of his rhythmic ideas.

The four men take rhythmic ideas one from another and improvise more or less unified expressions of them.