jazziness

The main thing is to keep the jazziness, the lights, the thrust, the activity.

The cliche belies the real physical warmth, and jazziness, of his works.

His best paintings have an appealing jazziness and chromatic radiance.

The dancers were cheerful enough at the start, although they minimized the choreography's jazziness.

The choreography captures a playful jazziness in the two ensemble sections.

"Major seven chords add jazziness to a musical passage.

Barber's music has an urbane, light-spirited jazziness that the singers seemed comfortable with.

He could invest his interpretation with an extra bit of jazziness, without distorting the choreographic syncopations.

But despite the decided lack of jazziness, I'll take the time to go to the Rose City Classic anyway.

But the visual jazziness creates a jarring feel, as if Welles were reading from a storybook in which the photographs occasionally come to life.

Yet the nickname Ray has a clipped jazziness, neat as a note of music, a winner, as in hooray.

Mr. McFerrin, for his part, is trying his best to preserve the score's jazziness.

Crisp, sophisticated new rhythm-and-blues has replaced the numbing formulas and watered-down jazziness that turned off younger fans.

Faiers's exercises in that now dimly remembered style have, at best, an appealing jazziness and chromatic radiance.

The 17-minute "Metropolis: A Blue Fantasy" (1928) embraces both overt jazziness and fugal counterpoint.

The polished Mia Cunningham and engaging Daniel Wiley took naturally to the jazziness while conserving classical form.

Lightly flavored with ragtime and swing, they inflected the pop-folk genre with a Kurt Weill-like jazziness.

"Swing It [Jazziness]"

The program began with Ibert's Concertino da Camera, a saxophone concerto that evokes late-1920's jazziness.

"Although he is largely associated in people's minds with Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, he had a tremendous flair for the jazziness," Mr. Adams said.

And just as the Chandler films swings with jazziness, so McCabe plods along, grumbling to himself, to the plaintive lament of Leonard Cohen songs.

You hear traces of the Second Viennese School, pungent Coplandesque tonality and plenty of streets-of-New York jazziness.

The rhapsody's elements of Broadway dazzle, Tchaikovskian bathos and contrived jazziness were all losing their former allure, and even the tunes were fading into Muzak.

After watching Mr. Frears ply his refined skills in mainstream studio fare, it's enthralling to see him employ that jazziness to spark his ticking impatience with injustice.

His sound warmed further in the Debussy Sonata, and caught both the jazziness of the pizzicato line in its Serenade movement, and the tension in its finale.