Sentence examples for jazz language from inspiring English sources

Steve was President of Plymouth Management Group, Inc., a lover of jazz, language and a Mets fan (except this year).

The music it contains is late-period 'Trane, recorded in 1966 as an exploration of the outer limits of jazz language, but not made available at the time to his record company, Impulse.

Combining a traditional string quartet with an improvising group — not to mention a strict and delicate classical language with a looser jazz language — is a hard business, and Mr. Smith has done it rigorously, without compromising either side.

They're both seekers, both invading the space between free improvisation and the consensual mainstream jazz language, both suggesting changes of style and even function in their instrument.... Hold on.

It has a felicitous air of starting from scratch with the big-band jazz language, rather than shoring up an existing language that's become too Germanic, too concerned with justifying its physical size.

And there's no slack in his compositions, which reflect not only his command of a post-Wayne Shorter modern jazz language but also a recent immersion in West African music.

It's nothing radical, but it sets various common jazz languages beside each other -- Russell Malone, Bill Frisell, Kurt Rosenwinkel -- and makes a point about how wide the circle has become.

This was different from what one tends to hear from younger jazz musicians in New York, many of whom are looking for ways to escape the jazz languages of even the recent past — in harmony, in rhythm, in instrumentation, in mood, in basically everything.

On anything above midtempo, it pushes a little faster than you expect, and it finds its jazz-language virtuosity sometimes in the same places that it's finding a sense of humor.

The band seems to be traveling into jazz's language of uncertainty: strange time signatures, the yowl of late Coltrane.

Anaïs Nin called jazz the language of the soul.