11.   So the ensemble traveled to France, where there was curiosity about American experimental jazz.

12.   Steve Reich and Philip Glass had created a music that was primarily consonant, reverberating with the sounds of American jazz, African drumming and Indian raga.

13.   The grant was used for programs on American jazz.

14.   There, he was exposed to American jazz.

15.   There were American jazz and blues, filled with snappy syncopations and sultry longings.

16.   As arrangements were being made for the dinner, Cardoso wrote the president and requested that the principal entertainment be American jazz.

17.   His recorded works include those by Jean Sibelius of Finland and American jazz great Duke Ellington, as well as fellow Estonians Arvo Part and Veljo Tormis.

18.   During the next three decades, she dominated American jazz.

19.   Ella Fitzgerald, the scat-singing virtuoso who dominated American jazz for decades, died Saturday, her spokeswoman said.

20.   Ella Fitzgerald, the scat-singing virtuoso who dominated American jazz for decades, died Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills, California, a spokesman said.