jazz

noun

1. 爵士乐
   a type of music with strong rhythms, in which the players often improvise (= make up the music as they are playing) , originally created by African American musicians
   1. a jazz band/club
      爵士乐队 / 夜总会
   2. traditional/modern jazz
      传统 / 现代爵士乐
   3. jazz musicians
      爵士乐师

verb

verb

1. N-UNCOUNT 爵士乐
   Jazz is a style of music that was invented by African American musicians in the early part of the twentieth century. Jazz music has very strong rhythms and often involves improvisation.
   1. The pub has live jazz on Sundays.
      那家酒馆每周日都有现场爵士乐演奏。
   2. ...the great American jazz pianist George Shearing.
      美国伟大的爵士乐钢琴演奏家乔治·希林

1. Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners.
   玩音乐的人在街角大声弹奏起尖锐刺耳的爵士乐。
2. His latest album release is a compilation of his jazz works over the past decade.
   最近发行的专辑是他过去10年来的爵士作品合集。
3. The sound veers between jazz and countrified blues.
   音乐在爵士乐和乡村布鲁斯乐之间来回转换。
4. My husband is a jazz musician. Enough said.
   我丈夫是位爵士音乐家，透露这一点就够了。
5. Marsalis has a formidable reputation in both jazz and classical music
   马萨利斯在爵士乐和古典音乐领域都有极高的声望。
6. The Festival, now in its fourteenth year, has become a major international jazz event.
   这个艺术节现在进行到第14届，已经成为国际爵士乐的一大盛会。
7. His music fused the rhythms of jazz with classical forms
   他的音乐把爵士乐的节奏和古典乐的形式结合在了一起。
8. His previous fusions of jazz, pop and African melodies have proved highly successful.
   事实证明他先前融合了爵士乐、流行乐和非洲旋律的作品非常成功。
9. He was one of the most influential performers of modern jazz
   他是现代爵士乐最有影响力的表演者之一。
10. She's never had any drug problems or done anything to give jazz a bad name.
    她从没有吸过毒，也没做过任何有损爵士乐名声的事。
11. 'Blow your head!' is still packing them in at Camden's Jazz Caf é every Friday night.
    每个星期五晚上，“爆头”乐队在卡姆登爵士咖啡馆仍然人气十足。
12. Two people played jazz on a piano
    两人联手在一架钢琴上演奏爵士乐。
13. Researchers have ploughed through 16,000 different pieces of classical, rock and jazz music
    研究者好不容易完成了对1.6万首不同的古典、摇滚和爵士乐曲的研究。
14. His music of that period fused the rhythms of Jazz with classical forms
    他那个时期的音乐将爵士乐的韵律和古典音乐的形式融合在了一起。
15. When Miles Davis died, jazz was robbed of its most distinctive voice
    随着迈尔斯·戴维斯的去世，爵士乐界失去了其最与众不同的声音。
16. It was jazz music he loved, its syncopations.
    他喜爱爵士乐，喜欢它的切分音。
17. In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience.
    在英国，爵士乐不再是精英人物的专利，它正吸引着越来越多的听众。
18. She protested that it wasn't traditional jazz at all, but an unholy row
    她抗议说那根本不是传统爵士乐，而是令人憎恶的噪音。
19. For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm blues, rock roll and country music
    对于外行人来说，西部摇摆是爵士乐、节奏布鲁斯、摇滚乐和乡村音乐的融合。
20. Page is well versed in many styles of jazz.
    佩奇精通多种风格的爵士乐。
21. At that time, his virtuosity on the trumpet had no parallel in jazz.
    那时，他高超的小号吹奏技巧在爵士乐界无人能比。
22. We're thinking of going to a jazz club tonight.
    我们正在考虑今晚去爵士乐俱乐部。
23. Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave ran a jazz workshop for young artists
    小号手马库斯·贝尔格雷夫为年轻艺术家办了一个爵士乐研习班。
24. Ben Tankard wowed the crowd with his jazz.
    本·坦卡德的爵士乐使众人为之叫绝。
25. The song have a syncopate rhythm in the Jazz version.
    这首歌曲改编为爵士乐后采用了切分音节奏。
26. It was my younger brother who introduced me to jazz.
    是我弟弟使我了解了爵士乐。
27. Cubism had affinities with the new European interest in jazz.
    主体派和欧洲新近的爵士音乐热有密切关系。
28. American Negroes invented jazz.
    美国黑人发明了爵士乐。
29. This produces an effect called syncopation& another characteristic of jazz.
    这便产生了切分音的效果。这种切分音是爵士音乐的另一个特征。

jazz sth↔up

1. 使某事更有趣；使某事更令人兴奋；使某事更有吸引力
   to make sth more interesting, exciting or attractive
   1. a jazz band/club
      爵士乐队 / 夜总会
   2. traditional/modern jazz
      传统 / 现代爵士乐
   3. jazz musicians
      爵士乐师
2. 使一段音乐听起来更现代化；使更具有流行音乐（或爵士乐）的风格
   to make a piece of music sound more modern, or more like popular music or jazz

n.

and all that jazz

• 以及诸如此类的东西（或事情）
  and things like that
  1. How's it going? You know─love, life and all that jazz.
     怎么样啊？你知道——说的就是爱情、生活以及诸如此类的事情嘛。

noun

1. a style of dance music popular in the 1920s

2. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

3. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
   1. that's a lot of wind
   2. don't give me any of that jazz

   Synonym:    windmalarkeymalarkyidle wordsnothingness

verb

1. have sexual intercourse with
   1. This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
   2. Adam knew Eve
   3. Were you ever intimate with this man?

   Synonym:    sleep togetherroll in the haylovemake outmake lovesleep withget laidhave sexknowdo itbe intimatehave intercoursehave it awayhave it offscrewfuckeffhumplie withbedhave a go at itbangget it onbonk

2. play something in the style of jazz