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  2. Jazz (word) - Wikipedia

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    The similarity of "jazz" to "jasm", an obsolete slang term meaning spirit, energy, and vigor, and dated to 1860 in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1979), suggests that "jasm" should be considered the leading candidate for the source of "jazz". The word "jasm" appeared in Josiah Gilbert Holland’s second novel, Miss ...

  3. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Jazz rap is a fusion subgenre of hip hop music and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentrism, and general positivism. 1980s -> Jazz rock: The term "jazz-rock" (or "jazz/rock") is often used as a synonym for the term "jazz fusion". 1960s -> Jump blues: 1930s -> Kansas ...

  4. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    The smallest pitch difference between notes (in most Western music) (e.g. F–F#). Jazz, blues, and various non-Western musics use quarter tones, a smaller subdivision of pitch. session musician, session player, or session man. In jazz and popular music, this refers to a highly skilled, experienced musician who can be hired for recording sessions.

  5. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.

  6. Jazz fusion - Wikipedia

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    Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion [4]) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock began to be used by jazz musicians ...

  7. Jive talk - Wikipedia

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    Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.

  8. 30 things to do when you’re bored (that are actually good for ...

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    Clean up your home. It may sound like a chore, but cleaning doesn’t just dust the literal cobwebs away; it’s also a great way to clear your head and leaves you with a sense of accomplishment. 15.

  9. Glissando - Wikipedia

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    Some terms that are similar or equivalent in some contexts are slide, sweep bend, smear, rip (for a loud, violent glissando to the beginning of a note), [1] lip (in jazz terminology, when executed by changing one's embouchure on a wind instrument), [2] plop, or falling hail (a glissando on a harp using the back of the fingernails). [3]