jazz standard
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- noun
- /dʒæz ˈstændərd/
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estándar de jazz
- When you pick up an album of jazz standards, you expect songs written by Gershwin and Kern.
- sing jazz standards
- play jazz standards
- become jazz standards
You might play some jazz standards, you might play some soft rock.
- You might play some jazz standards, you might play some soft rock.
Examples
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You might play some jazz standards, you might play some soft rock.
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Why do some songs become jazz standards and others of seemingly equal interest do not?
Academic text (2014) -
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Some pieces like "Social Call" and "Minority" went on to become jazz standards.
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Arioli's new album, All the Way, is a collection of jazz standards from the canonical Great American Songbook.
Synonyms
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Generally used and accepted as correct
How Popular
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination of 'jazz' (a music genre) and 'standard' (a norm or benchmark) points toward a piece that is widely accepted or typical within the jazz repertoire, so the constituents give a useful clue. However, 'standard' as a noun meaning 'a well‑known song commonly played by musicians' is a specialized, collocational musical sense that a B1 learner may not predict without prior exposure. Cross‑linguistically the concept is sometimes lexicalized or borrowed, but the specific musical sense reduces full transparency.
Etymology
Jazz standard comes from early jazz players using popular songs from films, shows and the radio so often that jazz bands treated them as the usual or 'standard' pieces to know. So a jazz standard today means a well-known song in jazz that musicians use as a 'base' to make up music on the spot.