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Definition: Jazz |
JazzNoun1. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; that's a lot of 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. Verb1. Play something in the style of jazz. 2. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jazz" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references) |
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The Honda Jazz, also known as the Honda Fit, is a five-door hatchback introduced in mid-2001 in Japan, early 2002 in Europe, late 2002 in Australia, and early 2003 in Brazil. There's a sedan model in Japan, too, the Fit Aria.Depending on the country, there are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 or 1.4 liter 8-valve engines or a 1.5 L VTEC. A continuously-variable automatic transmission (CVT) is standard in Japan, export markets have this as an option and a 5-speed manual is standard.
The back seats fold up vertically (like movie theater seats), as well as flat down, enhancing already-excellent space efficiency.
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Jazz, a musical form that grew out of a cross-fertilization of folk blues, ragtime, and European music, particularly band music, has been called the first art form to develop in the United States of America.
History
One of the key influences on jazz was blues, a rural folk art that changed as black musicians migrated to the cities in the late 19th century. In addition, many early jazz musicians made a living playing in small marching bands, and the instruments of these groups became the basic instruments of jazz: brass, reeds, and drums. Purportedly, the availability of war-surplus band instruments from the American Civil War aided the trend. Early jazz also frequently used the structure and beat of marches, which were the standard form of popular concert music at the turn of century.
Though jazz has its folk roots, it was partly created by formally-trained musicians like Lorenzo Tio. Scott Joplin, who played ragtime piano in a brothel while writing an opera, shows the different influences at work in the period.
An important event in the development of jazz was the tightening of the Jim Crow (racial segregation) laws in Louisiana in the 1890s. Accomplished musicians of mixed race were no longer allowed to work with whites but were easily able to find work in black bands and orchestras, to which they applied conservatory standards.
There was a general liberalization of customs before World War I. Public dance halls, clubs, and tea rooms opened in the cities, and black dances like the cakewalk and the shimmy were eventually adopted by a white public, especially the flappers. White audiences saw them first in vaudeville shows, then performed by exhibition dancers in the clubs.
Much of the music for this dancing was not jazz, but it was new, and the fashion for new music did involve enthusiasm for some idea of jazz. Popular composers like Irving Berlin made attempts at jazzy writing, though they seldom used the specific musical devices that were second nature to jazz players--the rhythms, the blue notes. Nothing did more to popularize the idea of jazz than Berlin's hit song of 1911,"Alexander's Ragtime Band," which became a craze as far from home as Vienna. Although the song wasn't written in rag time, the lyrics describe a jazz band, right up to jazzing up popular songs, as in the line, "If you want to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime . . ."
Phonograph records made new music available everywhere. Through a few recordings aimed at black audiences, Louis Armstrong made the first decisive change in jazz. He played with the usual New Orleans march combo, in which everyone improvised simultaneously. But he was an extraordinary improviser, capable of creating endless variations on the initial melody. Musicians imitated him, not the ensemble, and jazz became a solo form.
The presence of dance venues influenced jazz musicians in two ways. They were more of them, since they could make a living, and jazz--like all the popular music of the 20s--adopted the 4/4 beat of dance music.
With prohibition, the constitutional amendment that forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages, the legal saloons and cabarets were closed, but in their place hundreds of speakeasies appeared, where patrons drank and were entertained by musicians. The music was still a mixture of things--current dance numbers, novelty songs, show tunes. "Businessman's bounce music," as one horn player put it. But musicians with steady jobs, playing with the same companions, were able to go far beyond that. The Ellington band at the Cotton Club and the various Kansas City groups that became the Count Basie band date from this period.
The early development of jazz was racially segregated, reflecting the culture of the United States at the time, with the innovation of mainly black club musicians being taken onto bandstands by white band leaders, who tended to mould the music more to orthodox rhythms and harmony. The slow dissolution of this segregation began in the mid-30s when Benny Goodman hired pianist Teddy Wilson, vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, and guitarist Charlie Christian to join small groups. In the mid to late 1930s the popularity of swing music and big band music was at its height, making stars of such men as Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington. Swing, the popular music of its time, covered a broad spectrum from "sweet" to "hot" bands, with the jazz content varying across the range.
A development of swing known as the jump blues anticipated rhythm and blues and rock and roll in some respects. It involved a use of small combos instead of big bands and a concentration on up-tempo music using the familiar blues chord progressions. One brief variation, known as boogie woogie, used a doubled rhythm--that is, the rhythm section played "eight to the bar," eight beats per measure instead of four. Big Joe Turner, a Kansas City singer who worked in the 30s with swing bands like Count Basie's, became a boogie woogie star in the 40s and then in the 50s was one of the first innovators of rock and roll, notably with his song "Shake, Rattle and Roll".
The next major stylistic turn came with bebop, led by such distinctive stylists as the saxophonist Charlie Parker (known as "Bird"). This marked a major shift from music for dancing towards an intellectual art form of the first rank. Hard bop was an attempt to make bop more appealing to audiences by incorporating influences from soul music, gospel music, and the blues. Later bebop and hard bop musicians, such as trumpeter Miles Davis made more stylistic advances with modal jazz where the harmonic structure of pieces was much more free than previously, and frequently only implied by skeletal piano chords and bass parts. The instrumentalists would the improvise around a given mode of the scale. Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which centred on the Hammond organ.
With the growth of rock and roll in the 1960s, came the hybrid form jazz-rock fusion, again involving Davis who released the fusion albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.
Since then the stylistic diversity of jazz has shown no sign of diminishing, absorbing influences from such disparate sources as world music and avant garde classical music, including African rhythm and traditional structure, serialism and the extensive use of chromatic scale, by such musicians as Ornette Coleman or John Zorn. However, jazz's audience has shrunk dramatically and split somewhat, with a mainly older audience retaining an interest in traditional jazz, a small core of practitioners and fans interested in highly experimental modern jazz, and a constantly-changing group of musicians fusing jazz idioms with contemporary popular music genres, forming styles like acid jazz which contains elements of 1970s disco, acid swing which combines 1940s style big-band sounds with faster, more aggressive rock-influenced drums and electric guitar.
Latin jazz deserves its own category or two - specifically there are two main styles of music that combine jazz harmonies and other concepts with rhythms and instruments from Africa and Latin America: Brazilian jazz and Afro-cuban jazz. While the music can be quite different, these forms of music are most definitely jazz, because they involve quite a bit of improvisation.
Improvisation
It's impossible to define exactly what jazz is, but nearly everyone would agree that a key element of jazz is improvisation. Musicians have been improvising since at least the time of Bach (who was a very accomplished improviser), but improvisation in a group setting was rare before jazz. The exact form of improvisation has changed over time. Early folk blues music was often based around a call and response pattern, and improvisation would factor into the lyrics, the melody, or both. Part of the Dixieland style involves musicians taking turns playing the melody while the others make up counter lines to go with it. By the swing era, big bands played carefully arranged sheet music, but the music would often call for one member of the band to stand up and play a short improvised solo. Finally, in Bebop improvisation takes center-stage, as almost the entire focus of the music is on clever improvised solos, with little attention given to the melody, or "head", of each piece.
When jazz musicians improvise, they usually use a chord progression - the series of chords that define the harmonic structure of a piece of music. For example, the Charlie Parker composition "Now's the Time" is 12 bars long and follows what Jazz musicians call a "twelve bar blues" progression. After the melody, the rhythm section keeps playing the same 12 bars of music while each soloist in turn improvises new melodies within the harmonic structure of the chords. Even if you are unfamiliar with music theory, you can get an idea of what's going on by humming the melody to yourself while you listen to the solo. This will make it more clear that the improvised melody is closely related to the chord progression of the piece. Fitting an improvised melody to the harmony is known as "playing the (chord) changes". As previously noted, later styles of jazz, such as modal jazz abandoned the strict notion of a chord progression, allowing the individual musicians to improvise more freely within the context of a given scale or mode.
Styles
- Dixieland
- Swing
- Bebop
- Hard bop
- Soul jazz
- Acid jazz
- Free jazz
- Cool jazz
- Jazz-rock fusion
- Modal jazz
- Nu jazz
- Latin jazz
See also
- List of jazz musicians
- Jazz Bassists
- Jazz Clarinetists
- Jazz Drummers
- Jazz Guitarists
- Jazz Pianists
- Jazz Trombonists
- Jazz Standard
Jazz is also a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison.
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Jazz moves are a key part of Lindy hop.History: Jazz moves evolved from Tap, which was originally called "Jazz dance". In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, jazz meant tap. Modern jazz is softer than Tap with more emphasis on the body and less emphasis on footwork. Yet, many moves carry over from Tap. Bob Fosse and Broadway style jazz was created in the 1950s, long after Tap and Lindy hop were established.
Moves
Traditionally jazz moves start on the 8 count. This leads to a schizophrenic behavior by lindy dancers who sometimes start jazz moves on count 8 and sometimes on count 1.
Body
Scare crow: Knees together, arms wide, forearms dangling, head to side.
Itch: Touch hands to random places on body.
Shimmy: Shake shoulders. Bend forward or backward.
Feet
Fall Off the Log: Kick right and snap fingers, step right behind left, step left, step right in front of left; kick left and snap fingers, step left behind right, step right, step left in front of right. This can be with turn or not.
Suzy Q: Step right front and bring knees together; and step left side and bring knees apart (twist).
Shim Sham: Step out and slide back. Right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left.
Tacky Annie: Toe back right on count 1, toe back left on count 2, toe back right on count 3, toe back left on count 4, stomp off on count 4+1/2.
Boogie Down: Step right, step right, down right (almost on knee). Step left, step left, down left (almost on knee).
Jazz Box: Step forward, step left, step back step across.
Knee Slaps: Hold on count 1, lift right leg and slap on count 2, hold on count 3, lift left leg and slap on count 4. This can be 2 rights and 2 lefts, or 1 right and 1 left, or 4 rights, or whatever.
Half Break: Stomp on right, step left, kick ball change.
Almost any tap pattern.
Walk
Boogie Forward: Kick forward: brush right, step right, brush left, step left.
Boogie Backward: Kick ball changes backward: Kick with the right foot and scoot back. Dancers usually keep their feet wide apart.
Pimp Walk: Step front, step side, repeat swing arms.
Shorty George: Kick ball change, step forward, step forward, .... Put one knee behind the other on each step.
Hands on knees, and Crazy Legs:
Fish Tail: Clap or shake hands at the ground.
Head
Pecking: Move head forward and back.
Variations
Direction: Face partner or audience.
See Also
Dance move - Basic - Sugar push - Side pass - Swing out - Circle - Groucho - Skip up - Aerial - Charleston - Jazz
Lead and follow - Connection - Musicality
Dance - Swing - Lindy Hop - Tap - Jazz
Music - Jazz
To Do
Break step
Pushes: from shim sham
Cross over: from shim sham
Suzy Q:
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Jazz dance has two meanings, depending on the era. Both forms are related by evolution.The first popular "jazz dancer" was vaudeville star Joe Frisco in the 1910s. He danced in a loose-limbed style close to the ground, with eccentric steps, and juggled his derby and cigar.
- From ? until 1955, jazz dance meant tap dance, because jazz was the music and tap was the main performance dance of the era. See Tap dance.
- After 1955, jazz dance evolved into the smooth, modern Broadway style that is taught today.
Jazz dance is a form of dance commonly used in Broadway shows and movies. Jazz is a less serious looking, looser kind of dance compared to ballet, for instance. Even though jazz dancing might look easy and fun when the dancers do it, most times the dancers have to be in really good shape, and practice sometimes six hours a day. Some traditional jazz numbers are 'All That Jazz' and 'Chicago'.
In Jazz Dancing the movements are big and exaggerated and there is usually an attitude the dancer conveys to the audience. The attitude would depend on the dance. For example in a modern number like "Livin' La Vida Loca", the dancer would probably be happy, and look like they were at a party having a really rockin' time. That would give the dance a profesional look. Jazz dancing is also used in modern dancing as on MTV. Las Vegas showgirls are also jazz dancers.
Just about every dance school teaches jazz.
Famous Jazz directors/ choreographers include: Bob Fosse Gwen Verdon
Well known Jazz dances includes: All That Jazz CanCan Damn Yankees The Red Mill
See Also
Dance - Tap dance
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The Utah Jazz are a National Basketball Association team based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Founded: 1974
- Formerly known as: New Orleans Jazz (1974-80)
- Home Arena: Delta Center
- Uniform colors: Purple and blue
- Logo design: The word "JAZZ" superimposed over a mountain inside a gold ring with the word "UTAH" at the top
- NBA Championships:
Franchise history
Players of note
Basketball Hall of Famers:Not to be forgotten:
- Pete Maravich
Retired numbers:
- Jeff Malone
- Karl Malone
- John Stockton
Current stars:
- 1 Frank Layden
- 7 Pete Maravich
- 14 Jeff Hornacek
- 35 Darrell Griffith
- 53 Mark Eaton
Utah Jazz official web site
- Carlos Arroyo
- Keon Clark
- Matt Harpring
- Andrei Kirilenko
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| JaLC | English | Jazz at Lincoln Center | N/A |
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Synonyms: JazzSynonyms: idle words (n), nothingness (n), wind (n), bang (v), be intimate (v), bed (v), bonk (v), do it (v), eff (v), fuck (v), get it on (v), get laid (v), have a go at it (v), have intercourse (v), have it away (v), have it off (v), have sex (v), hump (v), know (v), lie with (v), love (v), make love (v), make out (v), screw (v), sleep with (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | As you know my paper is dry. Do you have any advice for girl who choose to avoid a life of jazz, and drink (Chicago; writing credit: Maurine Dallas Watkins; Bob Fosse) I originally planned to go off to London to play a cool jazz tenor saxophone, but somehow I drifted (Oliver's Travels; writing credit: Alan Plater) To me, jazz is just noise (The Talented Mr. Ripley; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) This one's a great jazz musician (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You know, schwartze jazz musicians and movie stars (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) | |
Lyrics | I have no kick against modern jazz (Rock'n'Roll Music; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits) Came my man jazz (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince) Cool and inspired sorta jazz when he walk (Chuck E's in love; performing artist: Rickie Lee Jones) So cool, she was like jazz on a summer's day (Valerie; performing artist: Steve Winwood) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jazz Middelheim (1970) Newport Jazz Festival (1968) Appunti per un film sul Jazz (1965) Jazz para todo el día (1964) Toronto Jazz (1964) | |
Song Titles | Jazz Me Blues (performing artist: Manny Lopez Quarted) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 9, Paris, France. : The 469th Infantry Band, which played jazz music, entertaining the patients. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Dietitian prepares red beans and rice for lunch after jazz funeral]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The "Jazz Rock Band" of the United States Navy Band, photographed on board a sailing ship, circa the early 1970s. This performance uniform was worn through 1974. Credit: NAVY. |  | Doctor Jazz, a new musical / Raoul Pène du Bois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Jazz Jamboree 71--International 14th Festival, Warsaw, October 28-30, 1971 / Tomasewski. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Newport jazz festival/New York 1954-1978/25 summers of jazz. June 23-July 2 / Milton Glaser. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Celebrate Halloween with an evening of jazz & blues, starring Bea Smith and Melody Jones, renowned musicians and community activists. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Jazz in Motion" by Barry McCabe Commentary: "Jazz buskers in Sitges, Spain, Summer 2003." | "Jazz bass" by > > E M R E T E L C I > Commentary: "The music lesson." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Piano and saxophone unison minor melody in a jazz shuttle style. | | Smooth jazz genre piece in a medium tempo with muted guitar and strings. |
| Harmon-muted trumpet solo with a jazz quartet. | | Modern jazz chords in a steady swing style featuring a muted-muted trumpet. |
| Typical smooth jazz style music with electric bass and keyboard melody. | | Harmon-muted trumpet playing in a slow jazz style. |
| Upbeat contemporary jazz style music. | | Cuban style jazz piece showcasing an electric guitar solo. |
| A jazz quartet playing in standard jazz style with muted trumpet melody. | | Typical Latin jazz piece featuring a tenor saxophone solo. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Denmark | American culture--and particularly popular culture, from jazz, rock, and rap to television shows and literature--is very popular in Denmark. (references) |
Panama | Lively salsa--a mixture of Latin American popular music, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock--is a Panamanian specialty, and Ruben Blades its best-known performer. (references) | |
Denmark | The Royal Danish Ballet, an exceptional company, specializes in the work of the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville (1805-79). Danes have distinguished themselves as jazz musicians, and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival has acquired an international reputation. (references) | |
Political Economy | FRANCE | A 40 percent domestic content requirement for music, excluding classical music and jazz, broadcast by French radio stations mandated by a 1994 law was lowered to 35 percent in 2000. Continuation and growth of a strong French motion picture and television industry is a government priority. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Their Sunday brunch on the pleasant terrace overlooking the swimming pool features live jazz. (references) |
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| "Jazz" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.14% of the time. "Jazz" is used about 1,168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.14% | 1,158 | 6,644 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.77% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Jazz Fm Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "jazz": all that jazz ♦ and all that jazz ♦ cool jazz ♦ dance to jazz music ♦ hot jazz ♦ jazz around ♦ jazz ballet ♦ jazz band ♦ jazz festival ♦ jazz group ♦ jazz music ♦ jazz musician ♦ jazz up ♦ modern jazz ♦ neo jazz ♦ new jazz. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "jazz": jazz-age, jazz-babe, jazz-band, Jazz-blues, jazz-classical, jazz-club, jazz-derived, jazz-for-dancing, jazz-funk, jazz-heads, jazz-heavy, jazz-house, jazz-inflected, jazz-inspired, jazz-junkie, jazz-like, jazz-lover, jazz-loving, jazz-modern, jazz-musician, jazz-pianist, jazz-players, jazz-poetry, jazz-pop, jazz-rap, jazz-rock, jazz-soul, jazz-style, jazz-swing, jazz-tinged, jazz-tinted. | |
Ending with "jazz": free-jazz, Home-jazz, rock-meets-jazz, School-jazz, services-to-jazz, yuppy-jazz. | |
Containing "jazz": beat-boho-jazz-punk. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
jazz | 4,056 | festival jazz toronto | 217 |
the jazz singer | 1,574 | the newport jazz festival | 198 |
jazz music | 1,245 | download jazz music | 190 |
montreal jazz festival | 776 | and all that jazz lyrics | 189 |
smooth jazz | 666 | jazz jackrabbit | 179 |
jazz festival | 660 | jazz musician | 177 |
utah jazz | 493 | festival de jazz | 167 |
air canada jazz | 415 | jazz age | 162 |
jazz piano | 330 | jazz shoes | 153 |
all that jazz | 301 | jvc jazz festival | 150 |
playboy jazz festival | 299 | festival de jazz de montreal | 148 |
airline jazz | 291 | honda jazz | 144 |
festival jazz vancouver | 280 | jazz artist | 139 |
jazz guitar | 264 | air jazz | 136 |
jazz cds | 253 | jazz midi | 135 |
jazz radio | 250 | new orleans jazz festival | 132 |
jazz history | 248 | fest jazz montreal | 126 |
jazz dance | 240 | jazz lyrics | 125 |
hampton jazz festival | 223 | acid jazz | 122 |
jazz ball | 220 | jazz club | 122 |
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| Language | Translations for "jazz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhazi (jazzy), xhaz (jive), i potershëm (knock about, obstreperous, rackety, rambunctious, rowdy, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), i papërmbajtur (demonstrative, ebullient, effuse, effusive, fiery, gushing, harum scarum, hot-blooded, hot-headed, Hotspur, immoderate, incontinent, intemperate, jazzy, lawless, out of hand, rampageous, rampant, unchecked, unconscionable, uncontained, uncontrollable, unreserved, unrestrained, wanton, wild), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references) | |
Arabic | موسيقى الجاز, رقصة شعبية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), джазирам, джазов, джазова музика, и тем подобни (and such, and suchlike), и разни други, празни приказки (babble, eyewash, flim-flam, froth, fudge, gas, natter, palaver, patter, piffle, talk, tittle tattle, twaddle, wind, yack), просташки (blatant, caddish, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar), джаз, енергичност (activity, vinegar, virility), ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), живост (activity, agility, alertness, brio, esprit, ginger, liveliness, mercuriality, mobility, nervousness, pep, punch, snap, sprightliness, spunk, vinegar, vitality, vivacity, vividness, volatility, zap), оживявам (enliven, exhilarate, liven, quicken, relive, smarten up, touch up, vitalize, vivify, warm, warm up, zip), внасям живост, крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glaring, howling, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), танцувам джаз, свиря джаз, свиря джазова музика, яркост (brightness, flamboyance, glow, harshness, intensity, luminance, obviousness, refulgence, vigor, vigour, vividness), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references) | |
Chinese | 爵士舞 , 爵士乐. (various references) | |
Czech | jazz, zlepšit (ameliorate, better, brighten up, enhance, rectify, reform, uplift), zdžezovat, oživit (animate, brighten up, enliven, inspirit, liven, quicken, reanimate, recapture, regenerate, rejuvenate, retrieve, revive, spirit, vitalize, vivify), klábosit (chat, chatter, gossip, jaw, natter, talk), džez, chvástání (boast, brag, rodomontade, swagger). (various references) | |
Danish | jazzorkester (jazz-band). (various references) | |
Dutch | jazz. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĵazo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | jazz. (various references) | |
Farsi | فریب (Abusive, Cheat, Deceit, Deception, Defraud, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Lurch, Lure, Mace, Seducement, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation, Wile), موسیقی جاز, نشاط (Alacrity, Esprit, Hilarity, Merriment, Mirth, Spree, Vivacity), سروصدا (Clamor, Explosion, Noise, Racket, Romp, Ruction), جازنواختن . (various references) | |
French | jazz. (various references) | |
German | jazz. (various references) | |
Greek | τζαζ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ג'ז. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dzsessz (bop, jazz music). (various references) | |
Italian | jazz. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ジャスミン茶 (jab, jack, jackal, jack-knife, jackpot, JAL PAK, jam, jam bun, jam session, Jamaica, jammer, jamming, Jap, Japan, Japan bashing, Japan Cup, Japan Foundation, Japan shift, Japan Society, Japan Times, Japanese, Japanese English, Japanese management, Japanese smile, Japanesque, Japanologist, Japanology, Japonaiserie, Japonica, jasmine tea, JASRAC, javelin, jazz band, jazz chorus, jazz dance, jazz festival, jazz life, jazz piano, jazz singer, jazz song, jazzmen, judge, judge paper, judgement, juggle, junction, junk, junk accessories, junk art, junk bond, junk food, junkie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ジャズ . (various references) | |
Korean | 재즈. (various references) | |
Manx | snaggey, snagchiaull. (various references) | |
Papiamen | djès. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azzjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jazz (jive, ragtime), trazer animação, transformar em jazz, tocar música de jazz, ruidoso (altisonant, blatant, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, rattling, roistering, uproarious, viatic, windy), música de jazz, descontrolado (unbridled, upset), dançar o jazz, dança de jazz, barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, flush, ginger, grandmother, hearten, heat, incite, inspire, inspirit, jolly, kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propel, rally, rouse, smarten, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm). (various references) | |
Romanian | jaz (jive, ragtime), vorbe fãrã rost, vorbãrie goalã (buncombe, flippancy, fustian, garrulity, piffle, rant, wash), vioiciune (alacrity, alertness, briskness, buoyancy, fizz, fling, go, hoity toity, life, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, quickness, snap, sprightliness, vivacity), transpune pe muzica de jaz, tâmpenii (apple sauce, stuff and nonsense), se prosti (rust), fandosealã (affectation, bumptiousness, ceremony, finicalness, flirtation, fuss, haughtiness, to-do), face pe nebunul (carry on, kid, put an antic disposition on), de jaz (jazzy). (various references) | |
Russian | джаз. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neskladan (agreement: not in agreement, disharmonious, inconsonant, inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, jazzy, noteless, toneless, tune: out of tune, tuneless), nakaradan (guy, ill-favored, ill-favoured, sightless), disonantan (discordant, dissonant), džez (jive). (various references) | |
Spanish | jazz (jive). (various references) | |
Swedish | snack (gas, jaw, palaver, patter, prattle, yap), jazz. (various references) | |
Thai | แจ๊ส. (various references) | |
Turkish | palavra (applesauce, baloney, boasting, boloney, bounce, braggadocio, bragging, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, cock and bull story, eyewash, fish story, flubdub, flummery, gaff, hot air, lie, palaver, talkee-talkee, tall story), kafa şişiren, ilişkiye girmek (copulate, couple, have intercourse with, jump, screw, sleep with), hızlandırmak (accelerate, expedite, force the pace, ginger, ginger up, hasten, hurry, jazz up, pour it on, pour on the speed, precipitate, quicken, Rev, rev up, speed, speed up, whip up, wing), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), cinsel ilişkiye girmek (have a screw, have sex, hump, lie with, shag, sleep with), caz yapmak, caz çalmak (jive), caz (blues, jive), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, tripe, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash), ahenksiz (atonal, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inconsonant, inharmonious, out of tune, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untuned). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | строкатий (brindled, gay, harlequin, jazzy, pied, plural, varied), крикливий (blatant, clamant, florid, loud-mouthed, tawdry), виконувати джазову музику (jive), підбадьорювати (bear up, bolden, cheer, embolden, encourage, enliven, hearten, pep up, reman), джазовий (jazzy), джаз. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò ồn ào (jazzy), nhạc ja điệu nhảy ja trò vui nhộn (jazzy), như nhạc ja vui nhộn (jazzy), có tính chất nhạc ja (jazzy), câu chuyện đãi bôi (jazzy), ồn ào; lố bịch tức cười (jazzy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jazz": jazzed, jazzer, jazzers, jazzes, jazzier, jazziest, jazzily, jazziness, jazzinesses, jazzing, jazzlike, jazzman, jazzmen, jazzy. (additional references) | |
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"Jazz" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ajazi, azz, azza, dazz, Ejaz, Ejazi, gizz, hazz, Holzzz, ijaza, jaaz, jaez, jaiz, jas, jass, jasz, jauz, jawz, jaz, jazc, Jaze, Jazi, jazo, jazs, jazu, jazzbo, jazzz, jez, jiaozi, jinz, jiz, jize, jizz, jozz, juz, Mazz, pazz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jazz" (pronounced ja"z) |
| 2 | -a" z | as, has, pizazz, pizzazz, razzmatazz, whereas. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "a-j-z-z" | |
+1 letter: jazzy. | |
+2 letters: jazzed, jazzer, jazzes. | |
+3 letters: jazzers, jazzier, jazzily, jazzing, jazzman, jazzmen. | |
+4 letters: jazziest, jazzlike. | |
+5 letters: jazziness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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