How to Use jazzman in a Sentence

jazzman

noun
  • The actor and jazzman is no stranger to horse racing, either.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 12 Apr. 2017
  • And why wasn’t Joe the modern jazzman also into hip-hop?
    Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Gosling’s smooth jazzman made us swoon, but the actor’s crooning didn’t exactly hit the high notes.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2017
  • The veteran jazzman was impressed, and Mr. DeFrancesco ended up touring with him for six months.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Music comes first for a Manhattan jazzman with one too many lovers and a manager who gambles.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Sharp visuals and gorgeous music propel this story of a jazzman trying to get back to Earth.
    Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Novelists huckster for clothing chains, jazzmen record for Muzak and Lawrence Welk, poets write advertising copy and folk singers fink out when the chips are down.
    Ralph J. Gleason, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
  • After hours, the pioneering jazzman Alphonso Trent, who led the house band at downtown’s staid Adolphus Hotel, would arrive with his orchestra to fill the hall with the new swing sound.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • This meet-up between singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams and jazzman Charles Lloyd is fortuitous.
    Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • Some passages in the book are almost poetic, as Dyson riffs from one subject to the next and from the historical to the contemporary with the improvisational flair of a jazzman.
    Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Or perhaps the film is intergalactically attuned in ways that recall the metaphysical ambitions of the great jazzman Sun Ra.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Francis’ ostensible goal is finding their older brother Martin, now a jazzman living with his family in the Bronx.
    Kevin Baker, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Coltrane was a magical figure to many, part transcendent jazzman, part spiritual seeker.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2017
  • What the production, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, emphasizes is a private illness: Blue is being driven mad by memories of his tragic mother and psychotic father, also a jazzman.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Seb’s fussy jazzman antiquarianism is, in any case, an entirely plausible millennial affectation.
    A. O. Scott, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2016

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