jazz

Found in thesaurus: talk, talking, popular music genre, popular music, dance music, ballroom music, danceroom music, spiel, play, copulate, couple, pair, mate

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jazz

adj. of or pertaining to jazz music, having the characteristics of jazz music, having a jazz rhythm

n. complex and rhythmic style of music which originated in New Orleans in the early 1900's; kind of dance music popular in the 1920's; idle talk, insincere words (Slang)

v. play jazz music; dance to jazz music; liven up, make lively or energetic (Slang); accelerate, speed up (Slang)

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Jazz

Jazz is a genre of music that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged in the form of independent traditional music and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a range of music from ragtime to jazz-rock fusion of the 1970s and 1980s, and has proved to be difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swing note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime. Although the foundation of Jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of America, different cultures have contributed their own experience to the music aswhile. Jazz music has led intellectuals from around the world to hail jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

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Tango music

Tango is a style of music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses"). It is traditionally played on a solo guitar, guitar duo, or an ensemble, known as the orquesta típica, which includes at least two violins, flute, piano, double bass, and at least two bandoneóns. Sometimes guitars and a clarinet join the ensemble. Tango may be purely instrumental or may include a vocalist. Tango music and dance have become popular throughout the world.

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jazz

Noun
1. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
(synonym) wind, idle words, nothingness
(hypernym) talk, talking
2. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
(hypernym) popular music, popular music genre
(hyponym) scat, scat singing
(class) funky, low-down
3. a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
(hypernym) dance music, danceroom music, ballroom music

Verb
1. play something in the style of jazz
(hypernym) play, spiel
(classification) music
2. have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
(synonym) roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
(hypernym) copulate, mate, pair, couple
(hyponym) take, have
(verb-group) neck, make out

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Jazz (der)

nm. jazz, complex and rhythmic style of music which originated in New Orleans in the early 1900's; kind of dance music popular in the 1920's

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jazz

nm. jazz, complex and rhythmic style of music which originated in New Orleans in the early 1900's, kind of dance music popular in the 1920's