Sentence examples for thing in jazz from inspiring English sources

That's the greatest thing in jazz.

Audiences love the drummer Matt Wilson: he's entertainment itself, tossing challenges out at his musicians, leading them through compositions that can be swinging or bucolic or anarchic, and sometimes pointedly funny (a rare thing in jazz).

There is the white guitarist Eddie Condon, whose music Larkin said was "the most consistently enjoyable thing in jazz", the "bejowelled utterances" of the New Orleans clarinettist Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet (the subject of a Larkin poem), and above all, Louis Armstrong, whose recordings from the 1920s Larkin described as "the Complete Shakespeare of jazz".

Davis was, at that moment in early 1964, torn apart: he was nearing forty; he had only recently formed a new band, featuring the seventeen-year-old drummer Tony Williams, the bassist Ron Carter, and the pianist Herbie Hancock; and that band had a taste for the new thing in jazz.

It's possible that Mr. Hutcherson, the vibraphonist, has never put in a bad performance as he has made his way through several different varieties of the "new thing" in jazz in the 1960's and finally as a master of the mainstream.

"He's doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations of Parker, Gillespie and Monk," pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet said at the time.

But recordings are recordings and live is live – very different things in jazz – and this fine band, including inventive long-time Honing drummer Joost Lijbaart, often played in a dynamically upfront, high-energy manner during the gig.

From the beginning Mr. McIntyre considered himself part of the avant-garde or "new thing" movement in jazz, as spearheaded by musicians like Ornette Coleman, Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, although his own music was considerably more traditionally melodic than theirs.

Cynical music fans like to talk about the things that aren't happening today; things that aren't happening in jazz, that aren't happening in R&B.

The basic thing is the feeling, which in jazz comes from what is interesting.

"The new thing, the third great revolution in jazz, has suddenly found its audience".