I. noun
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a music/jazz/rock etc fan
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Jazz fans are in for a treat at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival.
a pop/rock/jazz group
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They’re one of the most exciting pop groups around at the moment.
a pop/rock/jazz/classical concert
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There were 150,000 people at the rock concert in Frankfurt.
a rock/jazz etc band
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He's the saxophonist in a jazz band.
a rock/pop/jazz/folk festival
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He's appeared at folk festivals all over Europe.
acid jazz
soul jazz
the music/jazz etc scene
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She’s still involved in the music scene in London.
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■ ADJECTIVE
modern
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Big-band music, especially Duke Ellington, and both traditional and modern jazz also appealed to the teenager.
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The rise of modern jazz through bebop coincided with the demise of the big bands.
traditional
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Big-band music, especially Duke Ellington, and both traditional and modern jazz also appealed to the teenager.
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Definitive music from his golden years and top-class traditional jazz by any standards.
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They are, in fact, comparable to those of traditional jazz recordings.
■ NOUN
album
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If musicians want to do jazz albums or make obscure folk records there are routes for that.
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Morrison has been flirting with a jazz album for some time, but this at-long-last effort exceeds expectations.
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Having just bought a collection of nearly 100 old jazz albums , Woker was tending to them, one by one.
band
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And somewhere, behind it all, a bland jazz band .
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They range from non-performing beginner groups to an auditioned jazz band that meets an hour before school starts.
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Young men formed neighbourhood jazz bands , creating uniforms out of crêpe paper and competing against one another for modest prices.
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At least the club had a good jazz band , and a first-class cabaret.
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Jazzy appeal: Recruits are wanted for the Lockwood Lions jazz band which was formed a year ago.
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We have, for instance, a jazz band and the more advanced patients do some very good playing.
club
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Bartz's father ran a local jazz club , and Gary got an alto sax at eleven years of age.
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Area jazz clubs and coffeehouses offer live music while visitors can catch a movie at one of two main theater complexes.
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She had never been to a jazz club before.
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They had dinner at a jazz club in the next street.
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When an audience in a jazz club feels the need to wear earplugs, something is awry.
fan
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Metheny's jazz fans will adore this, but all his other admirers will raise an eyebrow too.
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Die-hard trod-jazz fans won't be happy.
festival
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He appeared at the 1975 Berlin jazz festival with Jazztrack and with the Michael Gibbs orchestra.
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The Chicago Tribune called it the most acclaimed jazz festival in the country.
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In Aspen, Colorado, a two-day jazz festival donated its proceeds to Global ReLeaf.
guitar
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There's a double cutaway arrangement and it's a very different body shape from any jazz guitar that I've seen.
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If you think of all jazz guitar music as boring bebop stuff, think again.
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Gibson have also announced some new instruments, including the first Gibson basses ever modelled on the ES-175 jazz guitar body.
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Gibson L-50 jazz guitar , 1936, all original with original case, £575 ono.
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What I like about jazz guitar is that it's so true.
history
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It was like listening to a jazz history lesson but not recollected in tranquillity, rather the opposite.
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Early jazz history is long on legend and short on facts.
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Monk shares the piano bench with Horace Silver, a most extraordinary moment in jazz history .
music
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This is the essential condition for all forms of extemporisation, as exemplified in jazz music .
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The Ritz-Carlton in the Camelback Corridor plans to turn its grill into a bar with live jazz music .
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We got a small table near the orchestra, which was faking jazz music from their memories and short-wave radio.
musician
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In addition to a number of internationally recognised jazz musicians the Festival attracts a number of artists and attractions from around the region.
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But from the viewpoint of a bona fide jazz musician , it is not really jazz.
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I am delighted that an accomplished jazz musician should choose a tune of mine to improvise upon.
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When jazz musicians go to a club, the first place we go is the kitchen.
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Max is a jazz musician , a black cat with Negro features, who owns a talking saxophone, his Alto Ego.
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Before then, we are inclined to believe only hip jazz musicians and self-destructive beat poets did dope.
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Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1929, Kundera worked as a labourer and a jazz musician before turning to writing.
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By then Mike, though insecure in his ability to improvise, dreamed of being a jazz musician .
pianist
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For anyone who doesn't know the work of this prodigiously talented jazz pianist , he made one piano sound like three.
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He was a local jazz pianist .
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In 1995, the state of BadenWuerttemberg blocked a performance by jazz pianist Chick Corea because he is a member.
player
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A really fine debut album by a local jazz player who seldom gets any ink.
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Other jazz players appeared to have a better understanding of the music.
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Even the newest jazz players still rely on a catalog of tunes older than their grandfathers.
scene
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His observations on the burgeoning jazz scene are quite laughable, and typically shot through with self-deception.
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The guitarist has ricocheted all over the jazz scene for two decades now.
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She developed slowly into one of the most important bandleaders and composing-arranging talents on the entire jazz scene .
singer
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It was an environment where he could be what he always wanted to be -- a jazz singer .
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Nor is Badu in any way a slavish Holiday imitator or even a jazz singer .
trumpeter
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A former jazz trumpeter , Nancarrow created remarkably imaginative music that sounds perpetually fresh and vital.
■ VERB
listen
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It was like listening to a jazz history lesson but not recollected in tranquillity, rather the opposite.
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Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz .
play
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The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music.
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At night, Hathaway played the piano in jazz trios around town and hung out with a young pianist-vocalist named Roberta Flack.
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A band, large or small, that stays together plays better jazz together, and Rollins' sextet proves it.
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Again, we were lucky enough to see the late, great Michel Petrucciani play jazz piano at the Festival Hall.
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In her time at the Royal Academy she remembered buskers in the tube, but they played rock or sometimes jazz .
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a jazz festival
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Definitive music from his golden years and top-class traditional jazz by any standards.
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Their collaborations set unsurpassed standards for jazz in an orchestral setting and for jazz soloists.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
up
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But Forbes did remarkably well for a nerdish unknown, so Dole now solicits his thoughts on jazzing up his tax platform.
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Of course, you could jazz up your message in these ways: Stressed?
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But Forbes did remarkably well for a nerdish unknown, so Dole now solicits his thoughts on jazzing up his tax platform.
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You might be surprised to hear that you can jazz it up even more.