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jazz, musical form, often improvisational, developed by African Americans and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythms.

The meaning varied, but the word did not initially refer to music. "Jazz" came to mean "jazz music" in Chicago around 1915. Sheet music cover from 1916; spellings such as "jas", "jass" and "jasz" were seen until 1918.

Jazz is a style of music that was invented by African American musicians in the early part of the twentieth century. Jazz music has very strong rhythms and often involves improvisation. [...]

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.

Etymology. The similarity of "jazz" to "jasm", an obsolete slang term meaning spirit, energy, and vigor, and dated to 1860 in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1979), suggests that "jasm" should be considered the leading candidate for the source of "jazz".

The team name was, of course, synonymous with the famous jazz music played in New Orleans. They called New Orleans home for five seasons until the team was sold to a group of businessmen in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1979. The team became the Utah Jazz on June 26, 1979.

Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited, doing business as Jazz, (Urdu: جاز) is Pakistan's largest mobile network and internet services provider formed by the merger of Mobilink and Warid Pakistan. 1994 as a joint venture between Saif Group and Motorola Inc.

Jazz standards Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

Every style of Jazz is played all around the world today, and two qualities that make it truly distinctive are improvisation, and attention to staying in the present. Additionally, Jazz music while absorbing influences from many genres, maintains it's identity as Jazz.

On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jazz, such as: bebop, blues, boogie, boogie-woogie, bop, and dixieland.

There are also songs specifically created as jazz vehicles, for example Fats Waller's "The Joint Is Jumpin'," Slim Gaillard's "Flat Foot Floogie" (With the Floy Floy) or Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)." These and other such songs cannot be properly sung without a jazz feeling.

'Jazz' was named the Word of the 20th Century by the American Dialect Society, which is remarkable since we don't actually know for sure from where the term originates. One of the most striking features of jazz to its earliest listeners was its speed, its sheer energy.