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jazzy

[jaz-ee] / ˈdʒæz i /


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It’s simultaneously jazzy and vulgar, wry and prophetic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

More successful is Betrayal, a jazzy, trip-hop excursion that appears to be about Madonna's stepmother, Joan Ciccone, who died of cancer in 2024.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

This playlist is mostly a mix of jazzy downtempo electronica like Jerry Paper’s “Grey Area” or the Mild High Club’s “Windowpane,” the latter of which has one of my favorite intros of all time.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

Like an album that kicks off with its single, it starts with a jazzy sequence of song creation that’s one of the best versions of the scene Carney has ever done.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

She wore an expensive, custom-tailored business suit, jazzy high-heeled shoes, a Bluetooth earpiece, and glasses with thick red frames.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

But a week after beginning her studies at Ailey, she realized that she preferred traditional ballet to Ailey’s jazzier contemporary style.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2022

She delivers on the daring promise of her prizewinning debut, “The Old Drift,” while teasing out a jazzier, more intimate register, casting a spell that probes the fluid, disorienting flow of grief.

From Seattle Times Oct. 3, 2022

By contrast, Davis conjures a prickly dynamic with Boseman as Levee, whose youthful arrogance and newer, jazzier style represent a looming threat to Ma’s authority.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2020

Nic is the jazzier part, the one full of vertiginous highs and gutter-licking lows, though anyone who has read Tweak may wonder where the grittier specifics have gone.

From The Guardian Dec. 13, 2018

Why not select a more cheerful subject and adopt a jazzier style—we of today would reject Milton’s Paradise Lost.

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

The jazziest of his three entries consists of regular arrays of horizontal segments, but he varies the width of the lines and the spaces between them to create a sense of pulsating motion.

From Washington Post Oct. 20, 2021

And so quantum computing, one of the jazziest and most mysterious concepts in modern science, struggles to come of age.

From New York Times Oct. 21, 2019

The long finale, Sailing Westwards, has the jazziest passages, but also hints at an exultant, rhumba-like party mood.

From The Guardian Jun. 14, 2012

One of the jazziest is called "Trafalgar Square" and it makes abstract music out of urban commotion.

From Slate Dec. 18, 2010

Bergstrom's two-piece orchestra was in the throes of its jazziest fox-trot number.

From Half Portions by Edna Ferber




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