a style of popular music that combines jazz improvisation with rock rhythms
jazz-rock in American English
(ˈdʒæzˌrɑk)
noun
music that combines elements of both jazz and rock and is usually performed on amplified electric instruments
Word origin
[1965–70]This word is first recorded in the period 1965–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Coriolis effect, double-book, isometric exercise, no-fault, red-eye
Examples of 'jazz rock' in a sentence
jazz rock
Super-fast soloing, sharp grooves and jazz-rock athletics seem assured.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Yet both brothers could not be typecast merely as jazz-rock players.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The five-piece band's bland, generic jazz-rock sound went relatively unnoticed by the crowd.
Globe and Mail (2003)
His doggedly four-square phrasing was more jazz-schlock than jazz-rock.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He's been in fashion, he's been out of fashion, he's been a jazz-rock drummer, a prog-rock singer and a housewives' favourite.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You could call it space-age jazz rock with a hint (on the title track) of medieval, quasi-religious chanting.