jazz musician
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2.3
- noun
- /dʒæz mjuˈzɪʃən/
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músico de jazz
- He was the great jazz musician who taught at the New England Conservatory at the end of his life.
- many jazz musicians
He cut his teeth in progressive rock and was a jazz musician as well.
- He cut his teeth in progressive rock and was a jazz musician as well.
- He was the great jazz musician who taught at the New England Conservatory at the end of his life.
- As a kid, briefly went to Juilliard out of out of high school with the intent of becoming a professional jazz musician.
- My daddy was both jazz musician and CIA man.
- You asked me, OK, I, I, my dad's a jazz musician, middle class or low middle class family.
- And then you look now we're all like jazz musicians.
- Louis Armstrong, famous jazz musician, wrote a diet book, and his technique for losing weight was to take laxatives and shit his brains out.
Examples
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To take advantage of the opportunity, we can look to the way jazz musicians create their communal sound.
Academic text (1995) -
"Alright, I thought, I'll put my mind to being a jazz musician."
Fiction book (1993) -
It's like the great jazz musicians.
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Greatest jazz musician of all time.
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Who is Ronnie Scott? - The jazz musician.
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And that's why I became a jazz musician.
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In his early years, Prima had actually earned a reputation as a serious jazz musician of some note.
Academic text (2003) -
At the same time, he learned to play the trumpet and became a competent jazz musician.
Academic text (1999) -
Second, transcribing solos of a model jazz player offers important training for the jazz musician.
Academic text (2011) -
Jimmy, an accomplished jazz musician, worked for several years as a music professor in Winnipeg, Canada.
Synonyms
1
8.5
A person who plays or loves jazz music
How Skilled
12
8.0
22
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'jazz' (a music genre) + 'musician' (a person who plays or creates music); the phrase simply denotes a musician who plays or composes jazz. This noun–noun/genre + agent pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Jazz musician comes from the music word jazz, which started in US cities like New Orleans as a lively style where players often made up music on the spot. One popular story says 'jazz' was slang for strong energy or spice, so musicians who played that bright, energetic music were called 'jazz musicians', and that's why the phrase means 'a musician who plays jazz' today.