jazz
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jazz/ʤaz/
▶noun
- 1 a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and a regular rhythm, and typically played on brass and woodwind instruments.
- 2 (also jazz ballet or jazz dance) a style of theatrical dance performed to jazz or popular music.
- 1 (jazz something up) make something more lively.
- 2 dated play or dance to jazz.
– phrases
and all that jazz informal and such similar things.
and all that jazz informal and such similar things.
– derivatives
jazzer noun.
jazzer noun.
– origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
'jazz' also found in these Oxford entries:
acid jazz
- axe
- backbeat
- band
- barrelhouse
- beat generation
- bebop
- big band
- blow
- blue note
- break
- chops
- combo
- comp
- cool
- Dixieland
- fiend
- free
- fusion
- groove
- gutbucket
- high life
- jam
- jazz age
- jazzbo
- jazzman
- jazzy
- jive
- jug band
- kwela
- lick
- part
- rhythm and blues
- rhythm section
- riff
- salsa
- saxophone
- scat
- set
- showband
- sideman
- skiffle
- standard
- stride
- string bass
- sweet
- swing
- trad
- traditional
