Sentence examples for jazz context from inspiring English sources

For the appreciation of jazz, context matters almost as much as the quality of the playing.

It takes a bit of getting used to, simply because its sound is so rarely heard in a jazz context.

The artistic director of the Orchestre, for a three-year term, is Daniel Yvinec, a polymath who studied bass in a jazz context in New York.

He continued to record in a jazz context on occasion and released a number of critically praised albums on the Xanadu label in the late 1970s.

On his new album, "Melaza" (Columbia Jazz/Sony), he continues in that vein, smartly using bits of traditional Puerto Rican instruments in a highly arranged jazz context.

The West African guitarist Lionel Loueke, who is from Benin, uses finger tapping and electronic techniques that add something new to Mr. Blanchard's straight-ahead jazz context.

Despite the pure talent emanating from Vaughan, there's a lot of light-orchestral glop here -- music for Barcaloungers -- with Vaughan in her non-jazz context.

Here is current New York jazz in context and enactment, situation and story: groups like the saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo's Agogic, a quartet including the trumpeter Cuong Vu; the pianist Orrin Evans's Captain Black Big Band; the trumpeter Shane Endsley's Music Band; and the drummer Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys.

I think that part of the tradition of writing for a jazz improvisational context is that you don't want to necessarily define every aspect.

Bob Berg, a tenor saxophonist who brought the speed and intensity of middle-period John Coltrane into a jazz-fusion context, died on Thursday in an automobile accident in Amagansett, N.Y., said Christine Martin, his friend and former manager.

Mr. Ward's program note refers to his view of jazz in the context of a social occasion, and although there are allusions to the Lindy and other dances of the 1940's, he evokes a social gathering for our time through an eclectic idiom that includes ballet bravura.