The group is self-categorized as playing "hack jazz", a style fused with rock structures and jazz stylings set to humorous lyrics and attention to solos.

Many of his ballads are devoid of tone bending jazz styling.

"Porgy and Bess" arrived by a less orthodox route, in the exquisite jazz stylings of Oscar Peterson and his trio, from 1959 (Verve).

He matched the second movement's exuberance with a brash, cutting tone, had the measure of its various jazz stylings and found no difficulties in the central cadenza.

This song, predominately featuring the piano and saxophone, is noted for its unique jazz stylings.

"Stray," his fourth album, flits between genres, from the retro jazz stylings of "Over My Head" to the heavy-riff rock-and-roll of "How It Is."

His chair in the band was taken by Henry Levine, a teenaged trumpeter devoted to traditional jazz stylings.

"Kenny was taking old standards and giving them a jazz styling that was unlike anything I heard before," Mr. Gilbert said.

"I learned a lot from Tuck's incredible guitar and Patty's jazz stylings," he said.

By college, he began listening to the jazz stylings of Oscar Peterson, Makoto Ozone, and Chick Corea.