jazzy
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With Gershwin’s jazzy accompaniment, the ballet has been described as “tap dance on pointe,” and staying warm is a requirement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
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
And what about those jazzy plastic strakes framing the gloss-black crossbar?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
My mind is still pounding with the jazzy thunder of that piece.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Well after her commercial peak, she remained a popular live act, her singing becoming warmer and jazzier as she sang both covers and original material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
We’ve grown used to jazzier adjectives — hilarious, awesome, amazing, absolute genius.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
Nic is the jazzier part, the one full of vertiginous highs and gutter-licking lows, though anyone who has read Tweak may wonder where the grittier specifics have gone.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2018
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
Mr. Feinstein was in the jazziest, punchiest mode I’ve found him in the four year since his 2008 album, “The Sinatra Project.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2012
The long finale, Sailing Westwards, has the jazziest passages, but also hints at an exultant, rhumba-like party mood.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 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
