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Jazz Dʒæz Musicians Noun Traditional/Modern Band/Club Rising Stars

Word3 jazz
WordType (noun)
Phonetic /dʒæz/ /dʒæz/
Example
  • traditional/modern jazz
  • a jazz band/club
  • jazz musicians
  • the rising stars of the new york jazz scene
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jazz

(noun)/dʒæz/ /dʒæz/
  1. a type of music with strong rhythms, in which the players often improvise (= make up the music as they are playing), originally created by African American musicians at the beginning of the 20th century
    • SEE ALSO acid jazz
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/acid-jazz
    • traditional/modern jazz
    • a jazz band/club
    • jazz musicians
    • the rising stars of the New York jazz scene
  2. and things like that
    • How's it going? You know—love, life and all that jazz.

    Word Origin

    • early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
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