Word Finder - jazz

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A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

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Energy, excitement, excitability.

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The substance or makeup of a thing.

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What is all this jazz lying around?

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Unspecified thing(s).

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I'm just going down to the shops and jazz.

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(with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.

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That show was the jazz!

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Nonsense.

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Stop talking jazz.

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Semen, jizz.

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To destroy.

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You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

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To play (jazz music).

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To dance to the tunes of jazz music.

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To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite

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To complicate.

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Don’t jazz it too much!

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To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.

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To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.

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To distract or pester.

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Stop jazzing me!

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To ejaculate.

Patience wasn't his strong suit and Mrs. Lincoln and jazz music somehow weren't sufficient evening entertainment.

Enjoy your meal accompanied by live jazz music every evening.

Banal lyrics with meaning and worth is another essential weapon in a jazz singer's armory.

Is she hopping on a new jazz bandwagon or the real deal?

Allen also plays the clarinet in his own jazz band.

Tables are adorned with candlelight and jazz music fills the air.

While in the sixth form I remember that we had a jazz band.

A welcoming party on the pier joined by The Blazing Sounds along with a jazz band in the town's bandstand.

An accomplished jazz bassist, Eastwood is pursuing a career in the artistic field that was his father's first love.

They played a jazz fusion oriented set - sometimes they rocked, sometimes they sounded somewhat bluesy.

The self-taught alto saxophonist's debut album Conversations With the Unseen uniquely mixes post bop jazz and rap with ease.

Their sound is a fusion of jazz, dance, R&B, soul, ethnic and popular music that transcends traditional borders.

The main and cellar theaters offer drama, dance, alternative cabaret, folk, jazz, rock and comedy.

Rain Pryor We are delighted to welcome back Rain Pryor to the stage with her own inimitable style of jazz cabaret.

Great jazz at to be based town grand cayman learn zoning law.

Its membership is open to all such organizations including chamber orchestras, symphonic wind and jazz orchestras.

Events will include dance, classical, jazz, rock and pop music, installations, lectures, screenings, theater and contemporary circus.

They take disco, dub, funk and jazz - and fuse the lot into a heady cocktail of nightclub magic.

Jazz jazz Jazz fm The jazz radio station for the UK.

If you have very specific goals for your guitar playing - say, you want to play jazz or you want to play in a nu-metal band - you'll need to be sure you can find the kinds of lessons you need online before you commit to learning this way.

While the dancers in the video, including Beyonce, have professional training in many disciplines from ballet and jazz to hip hop and other urban dance moves, you don't necessarily have to have that kind of training to learn the dance.

With different bands every single night, you can expect to experience anything from jazz to latin performances when you visit.

Despite the political power-player setting, the restaurant has a relaxed atmosphere, with an ambiance set by jazz and blues music.

The cozy and comfortable atmosphere serves as the perfect venue for patrons seeking a place to relax and dine in the heated patio or indoors while nightly live jazz tunes emanate from the piano.

Combo A Cuban version of the North American jazz combo A Cuban version of the North American jazz combos.

We commissioned young British jazz composer Byron Wallen to write new music inspired by Langston's poems.

Britain is more famous for pop music than it is for classical composers or jazz musicians.

Introduce your young singers to the basics of vocal jazz with three original songs illustrating a specific jazz concept.

As should the reissues of two almost contemporaneous CDs from the same kind of jazz meets rock area of things.

It's a largely conventional acoustic jazz piano set, recorded with Canadians Duncan Hopkins (bass) and Anthony Michelli (drums ).

This track has retained its popularity on the jazz dance scene over twenty five years and is rightly regarded as a classic.

Like most terms applied to jazz music, hard bop does not define a precisely delineated genre.

The Big Band ably entertained the diners at HMS Dalriada, with plenty of Dinner Jazz - nice!

Hodes's story includes almost thirty photographs and a comprehensive discography, filling a gap in the world of jazz literature.

She wanted to be taken seriously as a musician, but instead became a jazz diva.

Hailing from the West Country, Beth Rowley doesn't seem like the archetypal jazz diva.

Dixieland jazz, and let the music take you away.

Veteran jazz drummer Steve Reid will steal the show on November 18.

We were trying to have a session on computers, which sounds like a tiny jazz ensemble playing.

And yet, let's go back to Jazz, so much of the Jazz music was so entangled with religious thinking.

He fused elongated African grooves with the driving edge and stage presence of James Brown and a huge jazz entourage akin to Sun Ra.

Can contemporary jazz recover its vitality or has the seemingly eternal inspiration of jazz evaporated?

A blend of folk, jazz and classical music was very experimental but good.

The house is located in a small hamlet close to the town of Marciac, famous for its international jazz festival.

Sometimes the Intermediate Strings work together with the Junior Strings on different sorts of string playing such as folk fiddle and Jazz.

He is one of the very major and historically innovative stars in the jazz firmament still active today.

She also attended a week's National Summer School and a two day work shop studying tap, flamenco, jazz and ballet.

Mood Indigo returns in February January 27th, 2006 The New Year brings forth a new jazz flavor for your musical taste buds.

In addition to research, Terry stays involved with classical and baroque flute and has recently ventured into jazz and folk music.

But Max also wanted to play current funk and experiment with Jazz Fusion.