What does SAJ stand for?

Straight-Ahead Jazz (music genre)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

They sway, strut, stilt-walk, and play everything from salsa to straight-ahead jazz licks.

ONSTAGE THIS WEEK

Playing standards by Monk, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter and four originals, this talented crew are sure to keep Britain's straight-ahead jazz flame burning.

JAZZ

Its tunes can be quite varied, depending on which instrument Janisch picks up, from straight-ahead jazz stormers to more funkified numbers.

BASS INSTINCTS; Michael Janisch celebrates debut album with Coventry ...

Some of the most militant, straight-ahead jazz critics are fans of the band.

Irreverent trio embraces pop as well as jazz

George Faison's 1971 Suite Otis, another new production, is an entertaining, straight-ahead jazz interpretation of Otis Redding's greatest hits for six couples in pink and red outfits (by Faison).

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

MA, with Tom on tenor sax, Ross Stanley on keyboards and Dave Smith on percussion, mix elements from Milesian fusion, free and more straight-ahead jazz into a seething brew of sound in which texture is at least as important as rhythm or groove.

Getting home to roots; Jazz

Once you've heard the first third, you might think Eigsti is just the latest in a line of exhaustively trained young jazz virtuosos: frighteningly skilful, but locked into hyperdrive versions of good old straight-ahead jazz.

Taylor Eigsti, Let It Come To You

Our strong suit is straight-ahead jazz of the past four or five decades, with a good assortment of new releases," Seymour says.

It's Jazz all night