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Jazz   /dʒæz/   Listen
Jazz

noun
1.
Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.  Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind.  "Don't give me any of that jazz"
2.
A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles.
3.
A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.



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"Jazz" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the music. Around the corner. Up a little flight of stairs. She entered the realm of Euterpe; Euterpe with her hair frizzed; Euterpe with her flowing white robe replaced by soiled white shoes; Euterpe abandoning her flute for jazz. She sat at the piano, a red-haired young lady whose familiarity with the piano had bred contempt. Nothing else could have accounted for her treatment of it. Her fingers, tipped with sharp-pointed and glistening nails, clawed the keys with a dreadful mechanical motion. There were stacks ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... learnt at last to jazz? Come take my arm, my clomplish boy;" O hectic day! Cheero! Cheeray! He chwinckled in ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various
... Broadway leaps highest in folly and the nights are riddled with incandescent tire and chewing gum signs; jazz bands and musical comedies to the ticket speculators' tune of five dollars a seat, My Khaki-Boy, covered with the golden hoar of three hundred Metropolitan nights rose to the slightly off key grand finale ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... bear, Peter had once been a rabbit and a giraffe, a turkey and a fox; and now under the spell of this weird music these dead creatures came to life in his soul. So Peter discovered the meaning of "jazz," in all its weirdly ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair
... town and live in the suburbs where the Bolsheviki wouldn't bother him), and don't leave any forwarding address with the postoffice. But if, as I fear from an examination of your pink-scalloped notepaper with its exhalation of lilac essence, the vortex of modern jazz life has swept you in, the ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... the big wireless companies have great stations fitted with powerful telephone transmitters and at given hours of the day and night they send out songs by popular singers, dance music by jazz orchestras, fashion talks by and for the ladies, agricultural reports, government weather forecasts and other interesting features. Then by simply shifting the slide on your tuning coil you can ...
— The Radio Amateur's Hand Book • A. Frederick Collins
... Balham who was last week bitten by a member of a Jazz band is now wondering whether he ought to submit to the PASTEUR treatment or just allow the thing to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 14, 1919 • Various


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