Musically, Mr. Moriarty's sensibility is very much a product of the 1950's cool jazz ethos, especially that of Miles Davis, to whom he paid tribute in an original song, "Miles". Bill Evans was also remembered in Mr. Moriarty's piece "Evans Heavenn," a pastiche of the late pianist's characteristic chord changes.
Mr. Braff was a member of the bebop generation who had little use for bebop, and some of Wednesday's highlights were provided by musicians who, though a generation younger, shared his devotion to the jazz ethos of an earlier era and his indifference to musical trends.
In the tradition of a city whose literary legacy includes both the Beats and Sam Spade, those out-of-the-way addresses also include hipster bars and Zagat-rated speakeasies like Bix, an alley-front favorite whose Jazz Age ethos includes tuxedo jackets and torch songs.
The ethos of jazz requires you to be brave and try new things, even if you make a mistake.
Followers of Mr. Haden's jazz career may regard that conservative ethos as a limitation.
The concert, organized by Mr. Belden and the Indian jazz pianist Louiz Banks, heeded the same ethos of crowded collaboration that guided Davis during his first fusion epoch, in the late 1960s and early to mid-'70s.
America once projected its democratic ethos abroad via cowboy flicks, jazz music, and edgy painting.
But the scene's most widely acclaimed artist is Flying Lotus, whose ethos, inspired by the consciousness-expanding jazz released in the late '60s on the Impulse! label — including that of his great-aunt, Alice Coltrane — is trying to shift hip-hop's focus from the material world to the cosmic.
"Immeasurable Light" highlights pipa melodies from the Tang dynasty (618-906) theough the medieval era and also reflects the experimental ethos of Ms. Wu, who has played bluegrass, jazz and other genres.
In those good old days, she recalled, there were large, gaudy supper clubs with floor shows (the Copacabana), exclusive celebrity hangouts (the Stork Club), jazz rooms, intimate late-night boîtes and piano bars, each with its own musical ethos.
Their light, pleasurable pop-jazz gave a lift to starry-eyed lyrics that evoke a '40s romantic ethos of delayed gratification leading to happily-ever-after for sweethearts bathed in moonlight.
