OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11150

jazz

/d͡ʒæz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
jazz
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.
You all look out now, here I come, everybody step aside, I’m gonna show you where from! I'm gonna blow in this horn and make you know that jazz is the king and let it be so!
You dare to bring your jazz songs into my house!