Sentence examples for jazz terminology from inspiring English sources
He had largely withdrawn from active playing, but his most important latter-day association was with the pianist Ahmad Jamal whose resurgent career was premised largely on a rejection of "jazz" terminology and a celebration of the continuity of African-American music.
Which just might be why he uses jazz terminology in talk about foreign affairs -- explaining that speechwriters should establish a theme and then have the freedom to riff.
A blue note is a flattened or – in the terminology of jazz – a "worried" note, which dips below the major scale to vouch for the intensity of an emotion; Blue Note is a record label which, since its foundation 75 years ago, has recorded the bluest and most worried jazz performers.
Calling him a jazz singer, though, is a study in imprecise terminology.
And he finds parallels between Whiteman — who commissioned "Rhapsody in Blue" and whose quasi-symphonic approach was said, in the unfortunate terminology of the time, to have made an honest woman out of jazz — and the Beatles.
For an artist who was a horn player in his youth and has longstanding ties to the jazz world, Mr. Wimberley has no trouble forging strong links between musical and visual art, which share much terminology.
The terminology is revealing.
Terminology is everything.
