| 单词 | jazz |
| 释义 | jazz (once / 885 pages) 1nv 2n 3v Jazz, a form of instrumental and vocal music characterized by syncopated rhythms and informal improvisation, has been called America's only original art form. If you've ever listened to Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, or Thelonious Monk, jazz is what you're hearing. The term jazz originated not with music, but in baseball, where it was used as a synonym for "pep, vim, vigor." It began to be used to describe music about a decade after jazz first began to be played in 1900 New Orleans. Since then, like the art form it describes, jazz has changed and expanded its meaning. Today, jazz can refer to a genre of dance, to the act of "sprucing something up," to the decade of the 1920s (nicknamed The Jazz Age), or to holding your hands above your head and waving your fingers, making jazz hands. WORD FAMILYjazz: jazzed, jazzes, jazzing, jazzy+/jazzy: jazzier, jazziest, jazzily USAGE EXAMPLESStone plays an actress, Gosling a jazz pianist. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) Musical performance in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese Verroneau, an international acoustic quartet, performs a blend of bossa nova, jazz, samba and swing. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) “I played for jazz bands in bars, and I even recorded with a pop group called the Blue Nile.” The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016) 1 1n a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles Hypo|Hyper scat, scat singing singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument bebop, bopan early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) boogie, boogie-woogiean instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) cool jazzjazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat funkan earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar hot jazzjazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation modern jazz, neo jazz, new jazzany of various styles of jazz that appeared after 1940 tradtraditional jazz as revived in the 1950s jive, swing, swing musica style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz popular music, popular music genre any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) 2n a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands Hyper dance music music to dance to 3v play something in the style of jazz 2Hyper play, spiel replay (as a melody) n empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk 3don't give me any of that jazz Syn|Hyper idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind talk, talking an exchange of ideas via conversation v have sexual intercourse with Syn|Hypo have intercourse, have sex, love, roll in the hay make out, neck kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion have, take have sex with; archaic use fornicatehave sex without being married swingengage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends bed-hop, bedhop, sleep aroundbe sexually active with more than one partner |
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