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jazz

noun as in style of music

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He doesn’t tell — but presumably Willie Weeks is among the good guys, as is Hendrix, and Wooten’s real-life cohort, and the visiting faculty at his music camps, who tend, like Wooten, to fall along the jazz-country-virtuoso spectrum.

During a six-decade career, he won 23 Grammy Awards, more than any other jazz performer.

That live performance, a tribute to health-care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis, will feature band leader Jon Batiste, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant and dancer Ayodele Casel.

Anderson biked until he was in his mid-80s and enjoyed listening to opera, jazz and symphony music.

Yet it—like the blues, like jazz, like rock ’n’ roll—is part of who we are and where we’ve been.

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Ragtime, blues, country, jazz, soul, and rock and roll were all pioneered or inspired by black artists.

For the last three decades, he has garnered justifiable praise as one of best pianists in jazz.

I think posterity will enshrine this body of work among the classics of 21st century jazz.

“Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” brings the rock chameleon into jazz territory, backed up by a horn-heavy jazz big band.

Do you see yourself setting a standard for classical chops in jazz?

The American influence has been felt to such an extent that King Jazz is a universal potentate.

I heard one stalwart old fellow declare he was going to vote for Jazz.

He performed the ceremony carelessly enough, and then lounged away whistling the latest jazz melody.

And almost before you know it, you are playing your favorite pieces—jazz, ballads, classics.

Besides, she had not forgotten what Danby Force had said: “Things often happen in the mill after a jazz night.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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