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jazzer

  • a word derived from jazz.
    jazz
    noun
    music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.

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But her phrasing is intact, and that’s when you know that she’s really a jazzer and that she’s hung out with Wayne Shorter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025

Barty meets Madison Keys next, and that should be an absolute jazzer – if Keys can let herself go – not a done deal – in a way Pegula couldn’t.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2022

The way the story is presented, Miles went in as an everyday jazzer and came out this shining example Ivy League style.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

EDT 16:53 45+2 min Philippe Coutinho has scored an absolute jazzer at Old Trafford - that should see Liverpool through.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2016

Classically trained jazzer Caine takes one of the monoliths of Bach's music – his transcendently beautiful set of 32 variations – making it at turns heartwarming, surprising and funny.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2010

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