jazzman
Americannoun
plural
jazzmenEtymology
Origin of jazzman
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
New Orleans’ genre-dabbling jazzman has been on a tear since winning album of the year at the 2022 Grammys and leaving his post as Stephen Colbert’s late-night bandleader.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024
And why wasn’t Joe the modern jazzman also into hip-hop?
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2020
Years later, a gentrified co-op board in the now gentrified East Village voted to toss Mr. Nathanson out, a jazzman found guilty of practicing his saxophone.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020
An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
