jazzy
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Passages that sound overtly jazzy are few and fleeting in this collection; folk and classical influences are more frequent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The melody on the jazzy “Betrayal” is memorable and affecting, and “The Test,” a synth-pop duet with her daughter Lola Leon, is one of the best songs on the record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
With a jazzy score fixed atop its ’60s-era mod-cartoon opening sequence, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” makes no effort to disguise its pastiche.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn’t go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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
Even in jazzier moments, he retains his purity, his ravishing classicism.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2021
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
In other ways, though, Hines is looser and jazzier, while Baryshnikov is knife-sharp.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 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
If Louis Armstrong established and defined jazz as a soloist’s art, then even at the start, at their jazziest, the Necks weren’t playing jazz.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2017
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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