11.   Europe has long been a place where American jazz musicians feel welcome.

12.   For at least half his long career, the violinist Isaac Stern stood as a symbolic figure, one of a handful of representative American musicians.

13.   His global renown eclipsed that of any other American musician.

14.   More recently, he became the first act signed by the new label co-founded by American musician Dave Matthews, a fan of his music.

15.   New American musicians would think of launching a career in Southeast Asia.

16.   No other American musician has led such a comprehensively busy and productive life.

17.   On that Thursday evening in Merkin Concert Hall in New York City, there was Cecil Taylor, the American jazz musician, waxing improvisational at the piano.

18.   On what orchestra members say was their most grueling tour in years, he put up with conditions that would have prompted unionized American musicians to go on strike.

19.   Suffice to say that just about any American musician of note, from darned near every genre, has passed through these doors and stood on this stage.

20.   The Bavarian Minister of Culture was criticized by the parliament for allowing Chick Corea, an American musician and Scientologist, to perform at a jazz festival.