Sentence examples for Jazz from high-quality English sources.

• But what’s jazz?

• UK Jazz is having a moment.

• Therein lies the whole story of the jazz renaissance.”

• Lyons, a jazz disc jockey in San Francisco, and jazz critic Ralph J.

• Jazz dance, any dance to jazz accompaniments, composed of a profusion of forms.

• If jazz – and, in particular, Joni’s jazz – is a challenge, this isn’t the album for you.

• A later development of jazz-rock—contemporary jazz, or light jazz—appeared on the radio in the 1980s and ’90s.

• Manhattan has been around for over 30 years – one of the first jazz bars to appear in Asagaya, kick-starting its now flourishing jazz scene.

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• The festival also provides scholarships for promising musicians to study jazz at the university level, and it commissions new jazz compositions annually.

• Kenton was responsible for the “progressive jazz” label that some mistake for all modern jazz and some use to identify all Kenton-linked jazz.

• Meanwhile, Previn took his hard-driving bebop jazz trio to the Newport Jazz Festival, Jazz at the Philharmonic in Los Angeles and other major venues.

• He has presented several jazz series for the station, including Impressions (with Brian Morton), Jazz Notes, Jazz File and Jazz Library.

• (Although sometimes included under the rubric of Latin jazz, the fusion of Brazilian music with jazz properly deserves its own designation as Brazilian jazz.)

• He helped organize Lincoln Center’s first series of jazz concerts, Classical Jazz, in 1987, and in 1996 Jazz at Lincoln Center became its own independent organization.

• In 1959, he and the Jazz Epistles recorded the first LPs by black South African jazz artists, two volumes of Jazz in Africa with visiting American pianist John Mehegan.

• He was also a leading scholar of jazz, and Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (1968, reissued 1986) and The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 (1989) are well-regarded histories.

Jazz sentence examples

• And in the New York area, Jazz at Lincoln Center has a thriving Middle School Jazz Academy, and a new High School Jazz Academy and a Summer Jazz Academy that were added in the past few years.

• —died December 2, 1999, Annapolis, Maryland), was schooled in both jazz and classical music; he played modern jazz on the (unamplified) Spanish guitar before the hit Stan Getz–Charlie Byrd album Jazz Samba launched the bossa nova fad in 1962.

• In fact, Japan has had a long love affair with jazz – nearly as long as the genre’s existed, with the first jazz scenes emerging in the early 1920s in Osaka and Kobe, just years after the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded the first jazz record, ‘Livery Stable Blues’ in 1917.

• Indeed, the sounds that jazz musicians make on their instruments—the way they attack, inflect, release, embellish, and colour notes—characterize jazz playing to such an extent that if a classical piece were played by jazz musicians in their idiomatic phrasings, it would in all likelihood be called jazz.