jazz

How To Use jazz In A Sentence

• Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
• I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).
• Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
• The album is a mix of standards, Brazilian music and a couple of new songs, and it's some of the jazziest, most adventurous music either artist has ever recorded. Tony Sachs: An Interview with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
• Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
• The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
• But the City wants to find jazz lovers another home.
• Despite the fact that the soloists just use these two chords, the improvisations are melodically and rhythmically rich - a signpost of contemporary mainstream jazz.
• The music picked up the tempo and overhead a saxophone played sweet jazz.
• Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.