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Armstrong combined high-note virtuosity with blues ability and a strong sense of swing.
The Art of Staying Hot Tom Nolan 2011
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Armstrong combined high-note virtuosity with blues ability and a strong sense of swing.
The Art of Staying Hot Tom Nolan 2011
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This gentle tune takes the album right into the single, and the high-note: “Nothing To Worry About.”
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He's not a high-note singer, but I remind you that no one survives forty years and thousands of performances of the most punishing tenor roles unless he's a tenor - not to mention the fact that Domingo sounds pretty damn good after those forty years.
Archive 2007-09-01 Lisa Hirsch 2007
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Next, the small screen simply can't convey what it must be like to have a 130-mile-an-hour serve flying straight for you, or what a feat it truly is to return some of those high-note shots.
If this man was a tenor... Jessica 2006
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Next, the small screen simply can't convey what it must be like to have a 130-mile-an-hour serve flying straight for you, or what a feat it truly is to return some of those high-note shots.
Archive 2006-07-01 Jessica 2006
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Worst of all, four times in the dreadful interim between breakfast and supper the postman's thrilly footsteps soared up the long metallic stairway like an ecstatically towering high-note, only to flat off discordantly at Stanton's door without even so much as a one-cent advertisement issuing from the letter-slide.
Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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Chicago - Adrian Peterson entered his meeting with Chicago two weeks ago on a major high-note 122 yards, 3 touchdowns, only to be limited to 39 yards on 12 carries for a 3.3-yard average.
NYT > Home Page By JASON SABLICH 2011
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Chicago - Adrian Peterson entered his meeting with Chicago two weeks ago on a major high-note 122 yards, 3 touchdowns, only to be limited to 39 yards on 12 carries for a 3.3-yard average.
NYT > Home Page By JASON SABLICH 2011
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While a high-note was a performance by Jon Bon Jovi, who opted to wow guests on his 21st wedding anniversary to his wife, Dorethea, the best part of the evening was that event raised more than $1.7 million, which will help register at least
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