Sentence examples for best of jazz from inspiring English sources

Far superior to this 14-track collection is "An Introduction to Artie Shaw: His Best Recordings, 1937-1942" (Best of Jazz), a 22-track French CD available from record stores that carry jazz imports.

Week after week, The Best of Jazz gives us the best of Humph, combining easy erudition, insights into the great musicians, including those that he played with, from Louis Armstrong on a rich seasoning of music to young players you might never had heard of, and a gentle insistence that home-grown musicians should get the credit they're often denied.

Presenter of radio and TV programmes including: The Quincy Jones Story, Best of Jazz, Open Forum, Holiday Programme, Cashing In.

"But on Oct. 14, 1930, you could summarize the best of jazz, Broadway and the popular song in a single word: Gershwin".

As she focused on the residents of the city's humbler neighborhoods, wrote her friend James Agee, Ms. Levitt lent her work a spontaneity, grace and lyricism that were seldom seen "outside the best of jazz".

An hour later, the same master of ceremonies was back on air as presenter of Radio 2's The Best of Jazz, a programme he has introduced every Monday night for 39 years - and dearer no doubt to his heart even than ISIHAC, since jazz has been Humphrey Lyttelton's life, as player, bandleader, composer and, on one recent disc, even singer.

His sense of variety is informed equally by the contrapuntal themes in Baroque fugues and by the best contributions of jazz band leaders.

My first job on broadway, in 'rent', was life-changing I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, "Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself".

Locals let loose on Frenchman Street, a three-block music strip that is home to one of the best collections of jazz clubs in the world.

"Terry wraps up all the best aspects of jazz both as art and entertainment," jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote in The Times in 1973.

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