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
  • 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
  • The tireless Mikal Bridges plays defense and offense with the elegance of a fine jazzman.
    — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026
  • Bono and Jacknife Lee revisited the track, and like a jazzman, Bono went all out.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Jothan seemed agreeably nerdy—less astro-jazzman than small-town postal clerk—but his attempt at reassurance backfired.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Director Grant Gee shifted his focus from rockers to a jazzman, and Berlin took notice.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Coltrane was a magical figure to many, part transcendent jazzman, part spiritual seeker.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2017
  • This meet-up between singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams and jazzman Charles Lloyd is fortuitous.
    — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Seb’s fussy jazzman antiquarianism is, in any case, an entirely plausible millennial affectation.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2016
  • This year’s Saturday night special began with smooth jazzman Bob James and Wilco’s Mikael Jorgensen doing a soulful keyboard duet on the theme song from the Seventies sitcom Taxi, which James composed.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026

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