hot jazz

Noun

Meaning

jazz that is emotionally charged and intense and marked by strong rhythms and improvisation

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A spin on military brass band funerals, New Orleans traditional funerals feature sad music (mostly dirges and hymns) on the way to the cemetery and happier music (hot jazz) on the way back. Source: Internet

As a result, their sound was often "sweeter" than what many of the hot jazz musicians would have preferred. Source: Internet

Usually danced to hot jazz music recorded or composed in the 1920s, 20s solo Charleston is styled quite differently from the Charleston associated with the 1930s, 1940s and Lindy Hop, though they are structurally similar. Source: Internet

Lion, p. 12. From these records, Bix first learned to love hot jazz; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca 's horn lines. Source: Internet

Specializing in hot jazz and recoiling from so-called sweet music, the band took its name from one of its most frequent numbers, Jelly Roll Morton 's "Wolverine Blues." Source: Internet

Other Whiteman tunes strike many listeners today as sounding dated next to the more aggressive and familiar-sounding hot jazz; still, some critics are coming around to Whiteman. Source: Internet

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