jazz

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And how about that Kenny G -- jazz will never be the same, right?

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empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

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noun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

noun

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

noun

a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jazz.

noun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

See also: wind, malarkey, malarky, nothingness

noun

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

noun

a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

verb

play something in the style of jazz

verb

have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

See also: love, know, screw, fuck, eff, hump

Example sentences

And how about that Kenny G -- jazz will never be the same, right?

He's regarded as one of the best jazz band leaders ever.

I am at least glad they left off the jazz drive, who needs that anymore!Seriously it is $35.

All the stuff he taught be was very basic jazz harmony that almost any book on the subject will teach.

He helped nurture multiple generations of jazz greats.

It's the pinnacle of modal jazz"... I think at this point, modal jazz was just getting started, not reaching it's pinnacle.

If you can name a jazz legend from any time until his death, they probably played with Miles before they were a legend.

I played saxophone in junior high orchestra band and junior high jazz band.

Then I learned how to start working with someone else's repo, which introduced me to cloning, pulling, pushing, fetching, and all that jazz.

I'd spent ~15 mins going over what the company does, what the work environment is like, the team structure, the personalities, the technologies, etc... I'd try to "sell" our opportunity to jazz up the candidate and get them at least curious and hopefully very interested.