Collocations withjazz
These are words often used in combination withjazz.
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avant-garde jazz
The style of music on this album can be described as avant-garde jazz with electric instruments.
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classic jazz
There's some classic jazz, dance-y stuff, and progressive things.
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contemporary jazz
A lot of contemporary jazz consists of sophisticated combinations of composition and improvisation in which it is often unclear to listeners what has been prearranged and what is improvised.
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cool jazz
Initially it started off as an instrumental group playing folk inspired cool jazz.
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famous jazz
He also hopes that the text will inspire more historical research into the lifestyle of famous jazz musicians.
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jazz artist
The improvisations of the jazz artist who responds in performance to an individual sense of what sounds are right for which moment, are by definition incompatible with standard textual formats.
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jazz band
I remember on one occasion a jazz band visiting a factory.
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jazz club
It is a jazz club with 8,000 members and 100,000 adherents.
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jazz combo
Every performance, as with a jazz combo, was reinvented on the same basis every time, within the same limits.
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jazz composer
He worked as a jazz composer and arranger for radio programs and big bands in the 1930s and early 1940s.
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jazz composition
She has made jazz composition her full time endeavor, composing and recording about one album a year.
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jazz concert
His primary experience includes extensive recording studio, theater, and jazz concert work.
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jazz drummer
By the time he left school, he was already a semi-professional jazz drummer.
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jazz ensemble
The score requires ten players, divided into part jazz ensemble (saxophone, trombone, drums bass and piano), part classical chamber ensemble (clarinet and strings).
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jazz fan
A keen jazz fan himself, he designs a series of stunning records covers, music magazines and the set stage for a jazz festival.
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jazz festival
An acid house party does not normally lead to alcohol misuse, but a jazz festival may do so.
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jazz guitar
The future of jazz guitar starts here.
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jazz guitarist
Grassel is recognized as a technically advanced, emotionally charged modern jazz guitarist who sounds like himself.
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jazz improvisation
This could be interesting, as it would erode the often clear divide between work-in-progress and completed piece, moving towards free jazz improvisation and happenings.
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jazz musician
The jazz course at the university where the current study was conducted incorporates three major aspects of learning to become a jazz musician.
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jazz orchestra
It only becomes jazz when it is played on a jazz orchestra.
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jazz pianist
But it will be nothing more than a new tune played by the jazz pianist on a fairly decrepit piano.
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jazz player
However, as a jazz player, the rhythm pattern of the tune was too simple for him to play.
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jazz scene
As the rock movement began to become involved with the jazz scene, tensions erupted.
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jazz singer
She is primarily a jazz singer, though also is a guitarist.
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jazz tune
I am not in the least concerned with a dance tune, a jazz tune or anything of that sort.
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live jazz
Thursday night is jazz night with live jazz music played throughout the evening.
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mainstream jazz
He recorded and performed fusion throughout the 1980s with new young musicians and continued to ignore criticism from fans of his older mainstream jazz.
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smooth jazz
He would surely view the ubiquitous ' smooth jazz' that has evolved from fusion with an even more jaundiced eye.
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