1.   A typical section began with a floridly imaginative scamper through C-Jam Blues, using the tune only as an occasional reference.

2.   Disk jockeys have long used its tunes for stretches of cruising between more hard-edged tracks.

3.   He also used the tune when he announced Dick Cheney as his running mate.

4.   There, he began teaching with guitar and voice, using a new music curriculum that uses blues tunes as learning tools.

5.   Using sketchier tunes, most of them based mainly on rhythm, the suite dabbles in ideas of soul and rock and African music filtered through his own imagination.

6.   Unfortunately, the folks at Pepsi have ruined it by using the tune in their new TV commercial with Cindy Crawford.