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noun. A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.

noun. Big band dance music.

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noun. Animation; enthusiasm.

noun. Nonsense.

noun. Miscellaneous, unspecified things.

intransitive verb. To play in a jazz style.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To utter exaggerations or lies to.

intransitive verb. To give great pleasure to; excite.

intransitive verb. To cause to accelerate.

intransitive verb. To exaggerate or lie.

phrasal verb. To make more interesting; enliven.

noun. A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles, but generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation, prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and percussion, but rarely stringed instruments.

noun. empty or insincere or exaggerated talk.

noun. A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.

noun. A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

noun. Energy, excitement, excitability. Very lively.

noun. The (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing.

noun. Unspecified thing(s).

noun. Of excellent quality, the genuine article.

noun. Nonsense.

verb. To play jazz music.

verb. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

verb. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite

verb. To complicate.

verb. To have sex with.

verb. To destroy.

verb. To distract/pester.

verb. have sexual intercourse with

noun. a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

verb. play something in the style of jazz

noun. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

noun. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

"One view is that jazz could have found its way to Illinois in the person of Bert Kelly, a banjo player who moved from San Francisco to form a jazz ensemble in the Windy City.7 It appears that the word jazz was only subsequently adopted by Dixieland bands from New Orleans, by artists in Harlem, and throughout the United States.v"

acid jazz  jazz up  jazzbo  jazzer  jazzy  

dance music  play  spiel  talk  talking  

Alcatraz  As  Baz  Braz  as  

ballad  ballet  bass  blue grass  classical  

acid rock  avant-garde jazz  ballroom music  baloney  bebop  

jazzed  jazzes  jazzing