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jazz

jazz

 
pronunciation:
jaez
phrases:
jazz up
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part of speech: noun
definition: a form of music characterized by improvisation and complex rhythms, with early influences of ragtime and blues. Jazz originated among Black musicians during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America. Jazz has continued to evolve and to influence new forms of modern music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald are some of the most famous names in jazz.
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