jazzy
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More successful is Betrayal, a jazzy, trip-hop excursion that appears to be about Madonna's stepmother, Joan Ciccone, who died of cancer in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
With its surging choruses and humorous arias and recitatives, to say nothing of its jazzy harmonies and dance rhythms, it possesses an irresistible satiric edge while still evoking American certitude amid Cold War challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
This playlist is mostly a mix of jazzy downtempo electronica like Jerry Paper’s “Grey Area” or the Mild High Club’s “Windowpane,” the latter of which has one of my favorite intros of all time.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Like an album that kicks off with its single, it starts with a jazzy sequence of song creation that’s one of the best versions of the scene Carney has ever done.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
I thought that Dad would like the song, since it had a jazzy feel to it.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
She delivers on the daring promise of her prizewinning debut, “The Old Drift,” while teasing out a jazzier, more intimate register, casting a spell that probes the fluid, disorienting flow of grief.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
It sounded jazzier than before — more trumpet, less drum — and the crowd was a little slow to react.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
Even in jazzier moments, he retains his purity, his ravishing classicism.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2021
By contrast, Davis conjures a prickly dynamic with Boseman as Levee, whose youthful arrogance and newer, jazzier style represent a looming threat to Ma’s authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
Why not select a more cheerful subject and adopt a jazzier style—we of today would reject Milton’s Paradise Lost.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
The jazziest of his three entries consists of regular arrays of horizontal segments, but he varies the width of the lines and the spaces between them to create a sense of pulsating motion.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021
If Louis Armstrong established and defined jazz as a soloist’s art, then even at the start, at their jazziest, the Necks weren’t playing jazz.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2017
His 35th solo studio album is his jazziest: the warm brass and catchy, sweet melodies recall 1970's Moondance.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2012
One of the jazziest is called "Trafalgar Square" and it makes abstract music out of urban commotion.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2010
Bergstrom's two-piece orchestra was in the throes of its jazziest fox-trot number.
From Half Portions by Edna Ferber
