1.   Alvin Ailey always proclaimed Duke Ellington to be not just a great jazz composer but, purely and simply, a great composer.

2.   Beyond much doubt, however, he was the first serious jazz composer, the first to write multithemed pieces and develop a distinctive jazz style.

3.   A couple of months later, the jazz composers Dick Cary and Hall Overton each sublet a floor from Young.

4.   A visitors center with historical information was also added, and the statue of Handy, the blues and jazz composer, was repaired and moved to the entrance.

5.   But to call George Gershwin a jazz composer is not exactly accurate.

6.   Byrd and David Berger, a jazz composer who has worked with the Ellington band, have produced an exuberant, stylish entertainment.

7.   For current jazz composers, virtually every harmonic strategy has an antecedent.

8.   From the beginning, jazz composers have struggled to integrate improvisation with written music.

9.   Most dance companies cannot afford to pay musicians and perform to taped scores, but Dianne McIntyre will appear with the jazz composer Lester Bowie and his Brass Fantasy.

10.   Musically, Jones was steeped in standards, especially the songs of Sammy Cahn, while Person had mastered such jazz composers as Benny Golson and Tadd Dameron.