Sentence examples for cutting contest from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile Jaguar Jr. (Michael McElroy) has dreams of following in his father's musical footsteps, but he has already lost one of his father's guitars to Thunder in a "cutting contest," leaving it up to his sister, Glory Marva Hickss), who has been blind since the day she was left at the altar, to uphold the family name.

His performance, he later admitted, was a cutting contest that he refused to lose.

To see how these knives can perform, I watched a cutting contest one afternoon, staged in the parking lot outside the exhibit hall.

And Jazzmobile, a community outreach, will stock the Alhambra with two nights of big bands — the Jimmy Heath Big Band and the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra — and hold a "cutting contest" at Minton's, supervised by the drummer T. S. Monk.

Ms. Rainey's dance with Mr. Croom wound up the hoofing equivalent of a jazz cutting contest, that ageless African-American ritual of can-you-top-this competitiveness updated by Mr. Wolfe and Savion Glover in their Broadway show "Bring In da Noise, Bring In da Funk".

Then she watched as four Voguers had an old-school cutting contest.

Later called "cutting contests," these intense challenges between dancers were an excellent breeding ground for new talent.

Ask anyone who has been blown off the bandstand in one of the informal duels known as "cutting contests".

And Beethoven was never happier than when destroying would-be rivals in what the jazz lexicon would later term cutting contests.

But they add that it can get pretty competitive in the duels for musical dominance, with services often turning into what jazz musicians call cutting contests.

(Chinen) Cuttin' Up! (Friday and Saturday) The premise for this two-nighter is simple and evocative: on each night two saxophonists will joust at the front line of a band, in the spirit of cutting contests of old.