Sentence examples for forms of jazz from inspiring English sources

It ultimately led me to purer forms of jazz as my musical tastes evolved.

Our attitude toward the classical canon, after all — and this increasingly applies also to older forms of jazz and pop — is that great music transcends time.

Her capacity to absorb new sounds and idioms into her own voice and her restless quest to forge new forms of jazz composition had few equals.

The saxophone was a popular solo instrument in the United States about World War I and was subsequently adopted in dance bands, becoming one of the most important solo instruments in the development of swing and other forms of jazz.

The friendly relations between contemporary forms of jazz and classical music are taken for granted these days, and this is a particularly fine example, a kind of jazz-inflected chamber music.

But unlike other American musical genres — rockabilly, various forms of jazz, blues, Cajun music, bluegrass — doo-wop never attained any sort of retro cool or developed a new generation of musicians and devotees.

The actress sees theatre as a form of jazz, in which every night is a new variation on a theme.

Since Bonnaroo's audience prizes virtuosity and nuance, why not offer them in the highly evolved form of jazz?

The French took American jazz to their hearts in the 1920s, adding their own flavours in the form of jazz manouche.

The movement in Taylor's oldest extant work, "3 Epitaphs" (1956), is largely simian; its music is an early form of jazz popular in the Southern United States.

Stan Levey, one of the first drummers to master the complex form of jazz known as bebop, died on April 19 in Van Nuys, Calif.