Eventually he took his jazz-funk sound to the influential George Clinton band.
For players, the distinctive sound of jazz has derived not from acquiring a conventional classical technique on an instrument, but from emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.
Jazz can still be the sound of surprise even when its materials are familiar.
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The Miles Davis Nonet's subtle harmonic shadings marked the beginnings of what came to be known as the "cool sound" in jazz.
With an easy sensuality, Jones found the seam between pop and jazz, writing songs that sound as if she grew up immersed in the canon and knows how to sing a gentle version of it.
While the "golden age" of jazz ended, the Kansas City sound never really disappeared.
But when he rigged the truck's bell to sound more like a jazz cymbal, he wound up making more money that summer than he'd made teaching for nine months.
Byrd began moving toward a more commercial sound with the funk-jazz fusion album "Fancy Free" in 1969, taking a path followed by fellow trumpeters Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
In the late 1890s, syncopation joined with soulful melodies, upbeat dance tunes united with the sultry sound of brass instruments, and jazz began to emerge.
The latest suite of stereo headphones will excite and impress pop and rock enthusiasts who want massive, high-definition sound clarity as well as serious jazz and classical audiophiles looking to take their favorite recordings to another level of performance and sophistication.
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While their accessible sound was not to the taste of some trad jazz purists, they were now pop stars as well as jazzmen, and more top 10 hits followed with March of the Siamese Children and The Green Leaves of Summer.
One finding: The "Sound Charge" shirts collected more energy with dance music than jazz or classical, says Mat Sears, a spokesman for Orange parent company Everything Everywhere.
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Add the magic of Hollywood and later the sound of the Beach Boys' pop and cool West Coast jazz: no wonder the world thought California to be especially blessed.
And with a free companion smartphone app available on iOS or Android, you can tweak what you're hearing to make it sound like you're in a concert hall, a jazz club or a quiet room.
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The Jam helped established Weller as one of the most visible and imitated rock artists of all time, but he further experimented with his sound upon the creation of The Style Council, which melded pop, jazz, soul and more.
But somehow singing jazz without the existential credentials is like some prep school mama's boy trying to sound like Sid Vicious.
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