Sentence examples for glancing jazz from inspiring English sources
He can be a lilting, glancing, jazz singer.
Particularly notable among his books was "Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music" (1964), an absorbing overview that traced American composition from Colonial times through jazz (with glancing mention of rock), published at a time when European musicologists paid scant attention to music in the United States.
In 2012, the bassist and composer, celebrated in her own corner of the music industry since her teens, released "Radio Music Society," a tongue-in-cheek record that retained its jazz chops while glancing toward mainstream fans, who now noticed her afro, leaving aficionados to wonder: Was Spalding the missing link that would reinstate jazz's place on the main stage?
It shares the same chord sequence as the next track, My Blue Heaven (in the same way that Charlie Parker's Ornithology borrows from How High the Moon), and contains glancing references to a host of jazz standards.
Take a glancing interest.
She's glancing down virginally.
He paused, glancing at Ilona.
Glancing around the room?
In the first episode it was her chance glance at a jazz player's fingers that triggered an unconscious memory: the way Brody made repeat motions with the fingers of one hand when on camera, as if signaling in code.
Nor is it for anyone who insists that jazz belongs strictly to the Americans, or that it glances backward at its own peril.
