jazz

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"The top jazz band will be doing a lot of Latin jazz, big band music," he said, "because our guest artist, Brian Lynch, is a trumpeter who specializes in Latin jazz and has written some big band arrangements, and so we're playing his charts."

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  1. noun Music A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
  2. noun Music Big band dance music.
  3. noun Slang Animation; enthusiasm.
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  • It's like jazz -- you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. —  Frank Gehry asks "Then what?"
  • But to those who love jazz, the name in synonymous with great hard bop. —  Things I'd Rather Be Doing
  • "A couple of the charts are quite out there in terms of swing style jazz, and the kids just love it," Ehlert said. —  Sturgis Journal Homepage RSS
  • There is a case for going further and calling him one of the finest guitarists in Brazilian Popular Music, as well as the first great Brazilian guitarist in American jazz. —  Home
  • The music and Jon s background will provide sizeable opportunities to market the record to a wide audience encompassing lovers of electronic, jazz, and world music. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
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