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[edit] Definitions of Jazz on the Web:
- A style of American music that originated in the South, started by African Americans; it is characterized by a strong , prominent meter ...
- A style of music of Afro-American roots chracterized by a strong rythmic understructure, blue notes, and improvisation on melody and chord structure.
web001.greece.k12.ny.us/files/2135/Music%20Glossary%20.doc
- a diverse, multi-faceted genre rooted in a synthesis of African and European musical concepts that emerged during the late 19th century. ...
www.louisianavoices.org/edu_glossary.html
- One Stop Jazz on the Web
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ranhab/links.html
- a style of music created in the early 20th century by African Americans, characterized by strong, syncopated rhythms, particular chords and harmonic structures, and a large amount of improvisation.
www.ket.org/artstoolkit/music/glossary.htm
- A kind of music that developed in the southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/musicresources/popDictionary.asp
- an American musical style characterized by improvisation and unusual rhythms, made popular by African American musicians starting in the 1930s
www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/road/terms.html
- American music born in the early part of the century from African rhythms and slave chants. It has spread from its African-American roots to a worldwide audience. ...
www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0776052.html
- Danny's older teenage sister. She is smart and is sometimes against her parent's ghost hunting.
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Phantom
- An eclectic, expanding collection of 20th-century styles of American origin, owing much to both black and white American musical cultures. ...
www.music.princeton.edu/~jeffery/Ellingtonvocab.html
- Rhythmic, syncopated music, often improvised, that was originated by African American musicians.
- A musical style created mainly by African Americans in the early twentieth century that blended elements drawn from African musics with the popular and art traditions of the West.
www.wwnorton.com/classical/glossary/j.htm
- a style of music that originated from Negro music in the United States of America, it relies on improvisation, syncopations and strong rhythmic patterns
www.mso.com.au/cpa/htm/edu/glossary/glossaryfull.asp
- music that originated in New Orleans, characterised by syncopations and reiterated rhythms
- Jazz, rooted in Western music technique and theory originating around the early 1920s in New Orleans is an original American musical art form, marked by the cultural contributions from African Americans.
www.salsa-dance-with-passion.com/salsa-glossary.html
- is a freer style of dance that is almost impossible to describe. It can be performed to almost any type of music and has a rhythm and flow unlike any other dance form. Every part of the body gets to move. It is fun, constantly changing, and mentally and physically challenging.
www.newmanconceptsindance.ca/description.php
- (DJ Jazzy Jeff) - Will's not-so-bright best friend. In contrast to Will, he lives in inner-city LA. He had a crush on Hilary before marrying a prison inmate who had an appearance on TV show COPS. Always wisecracking, he is often thrown out of the Banks' residence by Philip.
explanation-guide.info/meaning/The-Fresh-Prince-of-Bel-Air.html
- Faction - AUTOBOT. Vehicle - White Car. AUTOBOT JAZZ lives by the "rock-n-roll" life, with a credo of "if you can't do something withfinese it's not worth doing at all."
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- is an energetic dance style using body isolations and varied rhythmic accents. Styles of jazz taught at The Dance Factory run the gamut from lyrical to funky to the Broadway variety.
www.dancefactorybrevard.com/glossary.html
- wind: empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
- play something in the style of jazz
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
- sleep together: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
- Jazz is an original American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States out of a confluence of African and European music traditions. ...
- The origin of the word jazz is one of the most sought-after word origins in modern American English. The word's intrinsic interest — the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century — has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well-documented. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (word)
- Jazz is a Japanese yaoi manga by Tamotsu Takamure. It has been licensed in the United States and will be published by Digital Manga Publishing. The first volume is set for release on November 30 2005.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (manga)
- Jazz apples are a new brand of apple from New Zealand. The cultivar is a cross between Gala and Braeburn apples.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (apple)
- Jazz is a 1978 album by English rock band Queen. It was the band's seventh studio album, and comprises a number of different styles of music, including disco-funk ("Fun It"), vaudeville ("Dreamer's Ball"), hard rock ("Dead On Time") and a country-flavored stomp ("Fat Bottomed Girls"). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (album)
- Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s, however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid 1800s American South.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (novel)
- Jazz (John Arthur Zander) is a fictional character created by Marvel Comics for their series District X.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (comics)
- The Jazz computer architecture was a motherboard and chipset design originally developed by Microsoft for use in developing Windows NT. The design was eventually used as the basis for most MIPS-based Windows NT systems.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (computer)
- Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns is a documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (TV series)
- "Jazz (We've Got)" was the second single from A Tribe Called Quest's second album The Low End Theory. Buggin' Out was not a single but a segment of the song appeared in the video. The sequences from "Jazz (We've Got)" are in black and white, while the "Buggin' Out" sequences are in full color. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (We've Got)
- Jazz is a brand name of soda made by the Pepsi company in 2006. It is a specifically named variant of Pepsi's popular Diet Pepsi product, combining several different flavors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (soft drink)
- Jazz is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers universes. For trademark reasons, Jazz is sometimes referred to as Autobot Jazz or Meister, his Japanese name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (Transformers)
- Jazz is an album by Jazz artist Wallace Roney released in 2007
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (Wallace Roney)
- Jazz (1947) is a book of about one hundred prints based on paper cutouts by Henri Matisse. Tériade, a noted 20th century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir (stencil) prints.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz (Henri Matisse)
- 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; The (in)tangible substance that ...
