the jazz
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Despite his rapid rise to the top of the jazz world, Rollins felt burned out in 1959 and decided to take time off to work on what he felt were the limitations in his music.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Clarke: We did that one tour of all the jazz festivals in Europe.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Subsequent recording artists—Sinatra, Crosby and others—changed the meter to either a 4/4 or a cut-time two-beat meter in keeping with the jazz era that swept the U.S. in the 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Her vocal stacks and counter-melodies are full of intricate detail; and her phrasing is exquisite, even on the jazz numbers where lesser pop singers would come unstuck.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
