How do you describe a sound?  

 

Look to its practitioners and signposts: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Oliver Nelson, Thelonius Monk, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Paul Desmond, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Toots Theilman, Shirley Horn, Abbey Lincoln, Wes Montgomery, Etta Jones, Pat Martino, Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Larry Coryell, John Mclaughlin, Elvin Jones, Cannonball Adderly, McCoy Tyner, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Parker, Wynton Marsallis and others and others and others and..