jazzman
Americannoun
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jazzmen
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One of Mendelson’s favorite songs was Guaraldi’s breezy hit, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” so the jazzman was recruited for a soundtrack.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
And why wasn’t Joe the modern jazzman also into hip-hop?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2020
Also the title of a tribute album by New York avant jazzman John Zorn, “The Big Gundown” is a wild ride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2020
Chazelle admires, above all, Neil’s capacity for suffering, which puts the character in line with other Chazelle protagonists—the bleeding drummer in “Whiplash,” the struggling jazzman and the anguished actress in “La La Land.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2018
For a time he forsakes the cornet, but eventually he resolves, roughly midway through the novel, to be both a family man and a jazzman.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
Peeling back those curtains can be enlightening because the three jazzmen from last century helped set the template for today’s migratory music makers, be they Taylor Swift or Beyoncé.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Copenhagen was a major center for touring jazz artists, especially black jazzmen, among them Louis Armstrong, who faced segregation at home.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2017
“But I’d get home and listen to Professor Longhair. The punks played with that enthusiasm, the same as the jazzmen in New Orleans, busting out the same sweat, playing like their lives depended on it.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2016
Bluesman Charlie Musselwhite clerked there ages ago, and current Chicago jazzmen such as cornetist Josh Berman and saxophonist Keefe Jackson still work the bins when they're not on tour.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 14, 2011
Mr. Ricker was known in particular for his first film, “The Last of the Blue Devils,” a feature-length portrait of Kansas City’s old-time jazzmen released in 1979.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2011
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