jazz的意思|jazz的解释-里氏词典

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]

Through his compact-disk player, a jazz band seems to come to life in his van.
Most reveled with the sound of African drumbeats, Jamaican reggae and American jazz.
Not to mention a Hawaiian pig roast, a jazz concert and a white elephant sale.
They'll also hear rock star Stephen Stills and jazz artist Grover Washington at the official host committee's party for 9,000 journalists at the huge Georgia World Congress Center.
Centered on the great flowering of jazz before 1920, it had a workshop production in New York in 1983.
Many of those now recording albums of their own are proteges of this itinerant preacher of the jazz gospel.
"The JVC Jazz Festival Salutes Jazz in France," with performances by a number of French jazz artists, is made possible on Wednesday at Town Hall by the First New York International Festival of the Arts.
She shrugs off the Supremes early on in a medley; she mechanically airs the latest album; then actually tingles nerves with 'The man I love' sung straight to a jazz trio.
So Bruford is now leading an electronic, improvisational British jazz quartet called Earthworks.
Hamlet marries Ophelia, and they live happily ever after." Ziad Rahbani has put the chaos and insanity of war-battered Beirut to music in an attempt to blend Arabic music and jazz into a new form.
"You didn't get rich with Lawrence Welk but you got a lot of exposure," Fountain says. "And he loves jazz." He spent two years on the show, working jazz clubs on the side.
"You didn't get rich with Lawrence Welk but you got a lot of exposure," Fountain says. "And he loves jazz." He spent two years on the show, working jazz clubs on the side.
Goossens played and recorded for many top orchestras and bands, including Jack Hylton's jazz orchestra at London's plush Kit Kat Club.
Hodes and Freeman didn't meet until much later, but both were hooked in those early days, and both made jazz their lives.
That reminded me of Horace Silver, the gentlest of jazz pianists off the stand, saying to me years ago when I worked for Down Beat magazine, "You wrote that I play `angular' piano.
"I really wanted to make a jazz record _ basically an acoustic type record that was played fairly live in the studio with tunes that were open to allow for a lot of improvisation.
This is because jazz not only moves horizontally across space, it moves vertically through time.
I asked Ben if he would introduce me to some jazz players.
Maybe it wasn't jazz, but the Welk musical hour was a top television show of that day.
The pickets have tried to rally support by warning that musicians who fill the city's symphony and small jazz bands may be forced to leave town to find work, leaving a cultural void in the city.
Nelson preferred the old-time sweet music, which he played with sliding melodies, but he could also punch out rough tailgate jazz with Kid Thomas.
Lewis said the second single will be an edited version of "Small World (Part One)" and the instrumental "Small World (Part Two)," which features a guest appearance by jazz saxophonist Stan Getz.
The bar, which featured live music nightly, has retained its reputation for rhythm and blues and jazz performances.
"I always played good dance music and played jazz for a show.
Another sign along the highway exhorted: 'Christians, vote God's heart, not your pocket book.' Back in the Paris of Arkansas, outside the centre set up for the media, crowds of tourists listened to blaring jazz and rock music.
At 49, he claims fans of all ages and appears at jazz, rock, folk and blues concerts.
"Her breathy, husky sound and narrow vibrato," the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz noted, "were ideally suited to the cool jazz of the 1950s." Miss Christy married Cooper in 1947, two years after she joined the big band.
He came up in the late 1980s crop of young British jazz musicians which included Courtney Pine and Steve Williamson and like them his style is coruscating hard bop tempered by a more contemporary sound.
Lifetime achievement award winners Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, Leontyne Price and Sarah Vaughan will participate in a special jazz segment.
The Supreme Court today refused to become involved in a bitter divorce dispute between jazz saxophonist Stan Getz and his wife of 32 years.

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