Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A jazz musician or composer.
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- noun music A
male member of ajazz band .
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- noun a musician who plays or composes jazz music
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Examples
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The jazzman was the father of three children, including actress N'Bushe Wright who co-starred in the movie "Blade" in 1998 and appeared in "Dead Presidents" in 1995.
NY Daily News 2011
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But BBC producer Anthony Geffen, with directors Edmund Coulthard and Nick Godwin and writer Mark Hay-hurst, have given "The Promised Land" an intensely American rhythm, propelled by an extraordinary score by artists such as jazzman Louis Armstrong, blues singerBessie Smith and rap group Public Enemy and original music by Terence Blanchard, who scored Spike Lee's "Malcolm X."
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Latin artist Carlos Santana, and jazzman Al Di Meola play two different styles of music.
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The new lineup reveals accomplished "smooth" jazzman Chuck Loeb, who made his Fourplay debut at the Seabreeze Jazz Festival in Florida earlier this year.
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I often give a dollar to a busker on the platform, whether it's the mad jazzman at Columbus Circle blowing two trumpets or the Carroll Street xylophonist whose strange compositions bring tears to my eyes.
Busking in the Underground Anne Kadet 2011
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Latin artist Carlos Santana, and jazzman Al Di Meola play two different styles of music.
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Soloing over the burly stomp of a song called "Hurricane Season," the young New Orleans jazzman sounded as if he had captured an epileptic bumblebee in the space between his lips and the mouthpiece of his trumpet.
FreeFest: For LDC Soundgarden, a roaring (and swirling) success Chris Richards 2010
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The new lineup reveals accomplished "smooth" jazzman Chuck Loeb, who made his Fourplay debut at the Seabreeze Jazz Festival in Florida earlier this year.
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In some respects he's the last jazzman one would have expected nurture an interest in traditional classical music, yet he constantly experimented with European forms, instruments and ensembles.
Mingus Haunts the City in February Will Friedwald 2012
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Mr. Moran wore it for spells at the piano—and on the dance floor—turning himself into a bobble-head jazzman.
Get Moving Up in Harlem Pia Catton 2011
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