Eric Burdon

I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.

British Musician

Christina Aguilera

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

American Musician

LaChanze

Dianne Reeves, a famous jazz singer, would be my biggest influence.

American Actress

Anita Diament

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

American Author

Dexter Gordon

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Louis Armstrong

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Kenneth Rexroth

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

American Poet

Gyorgy Ligeti

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

Hungarian Composer

Kurt Elling

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

Alexandre Desplat

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

French Composer

Jazz has deep cultural significance in American history, especially linked to African American communities.

American Roots

In jazz music, expect creative on-the-spot compositions, showcasing musicians' skills and interaction.

Dynamic Improvisation

There are various styles of jazz, such as bebop, swing, and fusion, each with unique rhythms and sounds.

Rhythmic Styles

Using 'jazz' as a verb is casual and best suited for informal chats or creative writing.

Casual Expression

When 'jazz up' is used, it often implies adding visual flair or decorative elements.

Visual Appeal

To 'jazz up' can also mean making something more lively or exciting.

Energetic Connotation

When someone says 'that's jazz,' they may be expressing doubt or disbelief in what's being said.

Skeptical Tone

'Full of jazz' can mean that what someone is saying is not worth considering seriously.

Dismissive Usage

The slang meaning of 'jazz' is very informal and may be inappropriate in formal or professional contexts.

Informal Setting

 And so I tried to do the same things, this time with music, where the robot doesn't really know what it's about to play, it just sort of moves its body and uses opportunities to play, and does what my jazz teacher when I was 17 taught me. She said, when you improvise,

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 link between music and the structure of the universe that's the kind of that's it that's it that's a that's a title right there but what I want to know is is there something about physics that you can tell me so that henceforth I will always think of jazz when I

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 watching a couple of pickpockets helping themselves to the students cell phone three blocks east wallet make a left at that hotdog cart and tablet three blocks past this jazz club and it's gonna be right in front of you campus hey good

Not Afraid to Ask for...

 and started a career as a professional performer. I started to learn classic ballet, jazz dance, acrobatics and other things to make my performance better. As a result of these efforts, and the help of many others, it happened.

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 through jazz, through his saxophone. So I prepped him for a cosmic phenomenon to see how he-- can he roll with it. - Uh-oh. This is going to be deep. Let's check it out. I want to describe something astrophysical to you,

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 As a singer-songwriter, people often ask me about my influences or, as I like to call them, my sonic lineages. And I could easily tell you that I was shaped by the jazz and hip hop that I grew up with,

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 Jonah's funk music funk is influenced a lot by jazz and jazz it's influenced by African music so it's cyclical some of my earliest memories of the music my dad and my mom used to play a lot of great

How African music...

 Real-world problems are often ambiguous and ill-defined and the context is always changing. A wise person is like a jazz musician -- using the notes on the page, but dancing around them,

Barry Schwartz: Our loss...

 to get a four beat system. This is the recognizable backbone of many genres popular around the world, from rock, country, and jazz,

A different way to...

 the sensation of caitlyn's licking should trigger the cubs lungs to start working jazz is she looking at yeah she is now yeah