jazz

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#1·7h ago

(music genre) 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.

You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!

Origin: . First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·7h ago

(figurative) , excitement, excitability.

You see, the kids, they listen to the rap music which gives them the brain damage. With their hippin', and the hoppin', and the bippin', and the boppin', so they don't know what the jazz…is all about! You see, jazz is like the Jello Pudd…

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