1.   His music is soaked in the sultry cadences of the blues and the rhythmic syncopations of hot jazz.

2.   New musical styles had displaced the hot jazz he helped invent, and a younger generation of players disdained him.

3.   The sentences build and flow with the fluidity of hot jazz and the urgency of hard rock, one thought after another tumbling out.

4.   There was the Beat scene in North Beach, hot jazz in the Fillmore and women wearing tight black sweaters.