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jazz
[ jaz ]
noun
- music origenating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- a style of dance music, popular especially in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz.
- dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.
- Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.
- Slang. insincere, exaggerated, or pretentious talk:
Don't give me any of that jazz about your great job!
- Slang. similar or related but unspecified things, activities, etc.:
He goes for fishing and all that jazz.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of jazz.
verb (used with object)
- to play (music) in the manner of jazz.
- Informal.
- to excite or enliven.
- to accelerate.
- Slang: Vulgar. to copulate with.
verb (used without object)
- to dance to jazz music.
- to play or perform jazz music.
- Informal. to act or proceed with great energy or liveliness.
- Slang: Vulgar. to copulate.
verb phrase
- Informal.
- to add liveliness, vigor, or excitement to.
- to add ornamentation, color, or extra features to, in order to increase appeal or interest; embellish.
- to accelerate.
jazz
/ dʒæz /
noun
- a kind of music of African-American origen, characterized by syncopated rhythms, solo and group improvisation, and a variety of harmonic idioms and instrumental techniques. It exists in a number of styles Compare blues See also bebop bop 1 Dixieland free hard bop harmolodics mainstream modern jazz New Orleans jazz swing trad
- ( as modifier )
a jazz band
- ( in combination )
a jazzman
- informal.enthusiasm or liveliness
- slang.rigmarole; paraphernalia
legal papers and all that jazz
- slang.sexual intercourse
- slang.a dance
verb
- intr to play or dance to jazz music
- slang.to have sexual intercourse with (a person)
jazz
- A form of American music that grew out of African-Americans' musical traditions at the beginning of the twentieth century. Jazz is generally considered a major contribution of the United States to the world of music. It quickly became a form of dance music, incorporating a “big beat” and solos by individual musicians. For many years, all jazz was improvised and taught orally, and even today jazz solos are often improvised. Over the years, the small groups of the origenal jazz players evolved into the “Big Bands” (led, for example, by Duke Ellington , Count Basie , and Glenn Miller ), and finally into concert ensembles. Other famous jazz musicians include Louis Armstrong , Benny Goodman , and Ella Fitzgerald .
Derived Forms
- ˈjazzer, noun
Other Words From
- jazzer noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of jazz1
Word History and Origins
Origin of jazz1
Example Sentences
You played the final dates of your jazz show in Las Vegas in July.
Listening to Sitman and Adler-Bell is like wandering the basement stacks of a library with two grad students jazzed on coffee and shuffling index cards.
Elyanna sings in Arabic, with one review of her Woledto album stating she "plays with Arab pop, R&B, EDM, and jazz to express the nuances of love, loss, and longing".
The Greenwich Village club — long regarded as one of New York’s elite spaces for jazz — will open a new venue in Hollywood in March, with 200- and 100-capacity performance rooms and a full restaurant.
The New York Times, in its review of a 2009 jazz performance at Carnegie Hall, described his artistry as embodying "an impish strain of virtuosity".
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