Yet the five songs on "Kind of Blue" represented a perfect mix of improvisational talent and musical experimentation.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

Visitors to the festival could see all kinds of performances with all levels of artistry and talent.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

"The purpose of the awards was to give those high school students who demonstrate superior talent and achievement in things of the spirit and of the mind at least a fraction of the honors and rewards accorded to their athletic classmates for demonstrating their bodily skills."

VOA: special.2011.05.27

Taylor says he wants to see this part of inner city Los Angeles harness unused talent and build a core of trained professional workers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Economist Mikhail Delyagin, director of Moscow's Problems of Globalization Institute, says bad working conditions, bureaucracy, and a lack of modernization are other factors driving away talent.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

So who is Usain Bolt? He's a mixture of talent, charisma and fun.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The memorial was an upbeat celebration of Michael Jackson's music, with local talent taking the stage to sing his hits or imitate his complex and iconic dance moves.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

That situation has created much speculation about whether James will take his talent elsewhere in search of a better supporting cast to help him win an NBA crown.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

"It's an available pool of skilled labor talent that other industries covet.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The film was a British production, which used Bollywood talent and was shot in the slums of Mumbai fueled the desire among Bollywood production houses to make a similar hit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

As Michael's Jackson's family presses authorities for more information about the singer's death, fans are recalling his life as a man of unusual talent who touched the lives of millions.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

"As a result of her talent and her skill, she now employed two other weavers, and she now is sending her children to school, and they had added on to their home.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

When one imagines that a talent that great and a person with that much inner and outer beauty could have had obstacles simply because of the color of her skin, it makes me weep."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

First of all, you train yourself and you have the God-given talent that you can do it, and that is that you can play jazz if they want jazz, and play country if they want country, and classical if you're that gifted."

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

"I love it that South Africans are just coming together as South Africans and saying 'Damn it, we've got our own people and it's an African World Cup, it's ours,it belongs to us' so why don't we use some of the magnificent talent that we've actually got?

VOA: standard.2010.05.05