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modern jazz

NOUN
  1. any of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940

How To Use modern jazz In A Sentence

  • It was a real and rare treat for aficionados of modern jazz.
  • Nearly all the major jazzmen tried swinging or reinventing the classics, and a few in particular — such as John Kirby, Art Tatum, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet — made a specialty of it. Masters and Young Bloods
  • Big-band music, especially Duke Ellington, and both traditional and modern jazz also appealed to the teenager.
  • Scott and Dankworth were blown away by the melodic lines of modern jazz and its soulful use of chord substitutions, ninths and flattened fifths.
  • As a bandleader, he bullyragged a shifting lineup of modern jazz virtuosos into performances which combined precision execution with emotionally-charged improvisation.
  • From ballroom, ballet and modern jazz to aerobics, dancerise, gymnastics, & jitterbug, dancing is the fun way to keep fit.
  • You actually like modern jazz, do you? Each to their own.
  • This album was my first introduction to modern jazz.
  • Modern jazz players like to take a theme and improvise around it.
  • Rock'n'roll groups appeared on bills along with trad groups and pop singers - even some modern jazz made it into the charts.
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