hot jazz
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4.7
- noun
- /hɑt dʒæz/
- Archaic
:
hot jazz
Examples
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Perhaps waltzes mixed with hot jazz here?
Fiction book (2000) -
Vinci was a street kid who played hot jazz on the saxophone, and that's me, Zab.
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She drags him into the house, turns on some hot jazz, and plies him with a glass of her father's hooch.
Blog text (13) -
The festival featured several hot jazz bands that captivated the audience with their lively rhythms.
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As the night progressed, the hot jazz played by the musicians filled the smoky club with energy.
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During the event, attendees danced to the energetic beats of hot jazz, which brought the crowd together.
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a style of jazz characterized by emotional intensity and strong rhythms' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'hot' (exciting, intense) with 'jazz' (the music genre). This modifier-noun composition follows regular semantic combination patterns and is likely understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Hot jazz uses hot in the sense of 'spicy' to paint a picture of music that is fast, loud, and full of feeling. Early musicians called lively dance music with strong rhythms and wild solos hot jazz, so today hot jazz means 'energetic, emotional jazz'.