英语词汇“jazz”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

jazz

/dʒaz

noun [mass noun]

1A type of music of black American origin which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.Even Dixieland and swing jazz from that era really had fast tempos....

Charlie Parker may have pioneered bebop jazz, but Miles Davis helped him to establish it.
He and the Muddy Basin Ramblers have played a mix of country, blues, jug-band music and early swing jazz for over a year.

1.1 (also jazz ballet or jazz dance) A style of theatrical dance performed to jazz or popular music.The main genres of choreographed dance are ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance....

But the more you look at it, particularly on Broadway, you begin to see that, while jazz dance is distinct from ballet and modern and all the rest, it has borrowed from each of them.
Like jazz dance, Cuban dance forms owe an immeasurable debt to African culture.

verb

[no object] dated Play or dance to jazz music.

Phrases

and all that jazz

Phrasal verbs

jazz something up

Derivatives

jazzer

noun ...

With last year's Happy People, former Miles Davis saxophonist Kenny Garrett mixed tough improvising and striking pop-jazz themes so well that even the most sneering fundamentalist jazzers thought twice about complaining.
He confronts black jazzers ' resentment of Baker's playing: Most heard him, with excellent reason, as a paler, milder Miles Davis, yet he won polls and looked like he was making big money.
But in as much as the music catches her still working close to the manner of her then significant model, Betty Carter, the disc nevertheless remains an interesting example of what attracted jazzers to Wilson in the first place.

Origin

Early 20th century: perhaps related to jism.

We have been enjoying jazz since the early years of the 20th century, but no one is completely sure about the word's origin, although an enormous number of suggestions have been made, including an African origin. It seems that the original meaning may have been something like ‘liveliness, energy, spirit’—in 1912 a baseball player said of his new way of pitching: ‘I call it the Jazz ball because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it.’ The first known musical use came in 1915 in Chicago. Jazz was also used with sexual connotations, and its source could be the slang word jism (M19th of unknown origin) ‘semen’. And all that jazz, meaning ‘and all that stuff, etcetera’, has been around since the 1950s, but is currently particularly known as a song from the 1975 musical Chicago.