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jazz
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
jazz \jazz\ n.
1. A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900
and developed through increasingly complex styles, but
generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation,
prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic
idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various
instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and
percussion, but rarely stringed instruments. [WordNet
sense 1]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. empty or insincere or exaggerated talk; as, don't give me
any of that jazz. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: wind, idle words, nothingness.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to
New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.
[WordNet 1.5]
