Sentence examples for tricky jazz from inspiring English sources

In "Johnson Rag" the exotic style is Baroque, the number a tricky jazz dance with nonsense Italian lyrics.

A miniature masterpiece of section-writing and spurs to individual flights, Four Brothers showed how distinctively he was already negotiating the tricky jazz compromise of freedom and organisation.

Under wooden flute and classical-style vocals the Mekaal Hasan Band plugged in with reggae, folk-rock and a tricky jazz-rock riff.

When the saxophonist Donald Harrison started his long, last-slot set on Thursday afternoon, he and his band were wearing business suits and playing musicianly small-group jazz: tricky tunes in odd meters–I counted a section in 7/4 time with the extended harmonies and dissonances of 1960s hard-bop.

Buoyed by the lilting guitar, she seamlessly carries off a tricky balance between fluid jazz singing and acting.

Ms. Molaskey is an expert at outfitting tricky tunes by the jazz pianist Horace Silver with smart, complicated lyrics that use the staccato, multisyllable language of bebop as a platform for witty, emotionally charged streams of consciousness.

When I asked Spalding about the rarity of female instrumentalists in jazz, she said, "It's tricky.

It's not because he always stayed pure, in some ghastly sense of jazz conservationism: he's had his tricky moments with jazz fusion and long ago gave up New York for Los Angeles.

So Percussion, a contemporary-music percussion quartet, joined the trio in a collaboration with a thundering six-beat pattern behind a tricky, zigzagging keyboard line, tilting between minimalism and jazz-rock.

Solos showed the trumpeters' jazz backgrounds, as bebop triplets nicely rode the tricky Serbian meters.

Backed by an innovative rhythm section, which borrowed from punk-rock and jazz as much as hip-hop and funk, Tricky has turned his act into a collective, similar to the band he used to perform with, Massive Attack.