jazzish

The second was charming, jazzish and downright brilliant in its rhythmic ingenuity.

The first was charming, jazzish and lightweight.

Metropolitan Opera audiences are familiar with this score, which even in a space really far too large for it makes a strong impact with its jazzish evocations and marching anthems.

Gasmask raised his hand and asked her about Carla Bley - a "jazzish composer who had recorded an opera (of sorts) to Paul Haines's poetry, called 'Escalator Over the Hill.' "

But Charles Fussell's "Free Fall," despite some vaguely jazzish elements, and Robert Stern's "Hidden Lake" seemed limp and passive, and Salvatore Macchia's "Fuoco de S. Antonio" sounded like naive movie music.

In Mr. King's case, he used a rock figure, and a few jazzish chords to construct a piece that without all its electronic delay effects would have been fine in a suburban basement; Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner" loomed on the horizon.

The 90-minute piece is for 10 dancers and 10 onstage musicians, who play a jazzish arrangement by Fabrizio Cassol of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers for period winds and brass, soprano, violin, saxophone, electric guitar, string bass and drums, all amplified.

In 1998 the CD album Brotherly Love was released, on the Tartan Pride label, alongside the book The Jazzish Bagpiper, a photo anthology and conversations with Harley, by Charles A. Powell, the first to compliment Harley's contributions to American music with Celtic bagpipes.