jazz

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then I go take a shower with jazz or spa music playing.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s an early-retired French professor who bakes homemade baguettes and listens to Parisian jazz singers.

From Literature

Highlife, a genre blending traditional African rhythms with jazz and Caribbean influences, was recently added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

From Barron's

Over a six-decade career, he fused Ghanaian rhythms with jazz, funk, soul and early Afrobeat and went on to inspire musicians beyond the continent.

From BBC