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jazz

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1. jazz - Noun

2. jazz - Verb

3. Jazz - Proper noun

Meaning

have sexual intercourse with

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

play something in the style of jazz

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Life is a lot like jazz - it's best when you improvise. George Gershwin

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. Duke Ellington

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. John Goodman

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. Paul Desmond

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. George Santayana

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. George Gershwin

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