melodist

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Among the finest melodists in jazz, he has a full-breadth command of his instrument, but his biggest assets are his knack for crisp understatement and simplicity.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2019

The Guardian's album review describes this as "ostensibly frothy" but says it "shifts and twists unexpectedly in a way that suggests someone behind it is conversant with the work of 70s soul's more expansive melodists".

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2018

He also names those great melodists Joni Mitchell, the Beach Boys and Orlando Gibbons as influences.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013

The doctor's true passion is listening to classical music, preferably that composed by the great melodists of the 19th century.

From Time Magazine Archive

All through the close-growing dark rushes the pretty little melodists may be heard calling to each other in their delicate, gurgling notes.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)