Zizz

(Soundbite of song, "Zest for a Zizz") WHITEHEAD: Bandleader Joost Buis also learned a lot from Duke Ellington pieces.

Joost Buis And Astronotes: Controlled Anarchy 2010

On Buis 'tune "Zest for a Zizz," he suggests the opulence of Ellington's dozen horns by skillfully arraying The Astronotes' five winds in background and foreground roles.

Joost Buis And Astronotes: Controlled Anarchy 2010

(Soundbite of song, "Zest for a Zizz") WHITEHEAD: Coming up in Amsterdam and working for some of the city's top bandleaders, Joost Buis and his Astronotes were exposed to myriad approaches to contemporary music-making.

Joost Buis And Astronotes: Controlled Anarchy 2010

Miss Pepper stopped him at once, hearing the familiar "Zizz-ziz-ziz" beginning.

The Rubadub Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

Still farther along, Bobo came to Zizz, the capital city of the Kingdom of the Seven Brooks, and was taken before the King himself.

The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928

Golden Apples, and Lord Seneschal of the proud City of Zizz -- in a word, the greatest nobleman in all Fairyland.

The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928

So Bobo left the proud city of Zizz, and once again rode over the hills and far away.

The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928

They were all so interested in listening to the deepening blueness of the sound the Zizz made that they kept quite still.

The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919

"Sara will have to frown on her," he said, "as she did on the Zizz."

The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919

It would be good to think of, anyhow, she decided; and as she thought of it, the wings of the Zizz began to dry so fast that they fairly sang.

The Garden of the Plynck Karle Wilson Baker 1919