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city blues

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) jazz another name for urban blues

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He had been acting on “Bay City Blues,” an NBC comedy about a minor-league baseball team, when he got the call that he had landed the “Friday the 13th” role.

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Woods’ “Inner City Blues,” the first in the Charlotte Justice series, was recently named by Time as one of the 100 Best Mystery/Thriller Books of All Time.

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But besides absorbing all the Kansas City blues and the Kansas City swing, Bird was pretty eclectic.

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Sporting a Gaye-esque beanie and backed by a dancing band, the Grammy nominee performed a crowd-pleasing mashup of the album’s title track and “Inner City Blues.”

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“There’s no threat of a brawl,” laughed Scott Brokaw, vice chairman of Capital City Blues, the official D.C. supporters’ club for Manchester City.

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