The jazz man on the tape is dead, but his instrument remains feverishly alive, a fact confirmed in the ecstatic faces of the three actors.
"He was quite a jazz man," Robinson said.
Of course, he was famous as a jazz man long before he made a name for himself as a longhair musician.
Where many good jazz men have started, blowing gigs in small roadhouses.
Unfortunately, he's one jazz man who shouldn't be trusted.
As the jazz man once said, if you have to ask, you ain't ever gonna know.
Anyway, they were an r'n'b band and he was a jazz man.
It was made unto jazz men, holy rollers and Washington politicians.
Chic's lives as jazz man and film musician sometimes merged.
It was really a sea-shanty tune, but the monumental jazz men worked it in.