1. The tune sounds as if it was dictated to Rose Fox by a three-year-old child. 2. In three decades of performance, they improvised and reinvented their material so thoroughly that no tune ever sounded quite the same way twice. 3. The best tunes sound even better through a nostalgic haze. 4. The familiar tunes sound soft and cuddly but the lyrics are not. 5. The tunes sound like a slight misstep of a brilliant youth too willing to share all he knows, and they throw the album out of focus. 6. After listening, the subjects were told to indicate if the tunes sounded right. 7. Rarely has a boogie-woogie tune sounded so sad. 8. The expertly crafted, scathingly sarcastic tunes sounded as if they had been lifted directly from the Broadway stage. |