jazz

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. ragtime, blues, hot jazz, le jazz hot, Dixieland, swing, bop, bebop; cool, progressive, West Coast, or modern jazz; slang, nonsense, foolishness. See music, unmeaningness.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. Dixieland, ragtime, modern jazz, progressive jazz, swing, big band music, bop, bebop, boogie-woogie, blues, syncopated music, improvisation, fusion, third-stream, hot music*, cool jazz*, straight jazz*, le jazz hot*, jive*; see also music 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

music, bop, bebop, fusion jazz, improvisational music, swing, Dixieland, jive, ragtime, barrelhouse, hot jazz, cool jazz, boogie-woogie. ''A thrilling communion with the primitive soul, or an earsplitting bore.''— Winthrop Sargent. ''Music that will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.''—John Sousa.

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• nonsensical vocalizations: scat singing

see music