Jazz

Jazz

A style of music characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. It emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.

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legit

Music; Jazz

The Jazz musician's somewhat ironic term for music, or a gig, that is not Jazz.

chase

Music; Jazz

Two soloists, such as the trumpet and sax, taking alternating 4-bar phrases (or 8, or 2).

Quality

Music; Jazz

The character of a chord given by its third, fifth, and seventh. The qualities are major, dominant, minor, tonic minor, half-diminished and diminished. In theory augmented major and augmented ...

Lydian dominant

Music; Jazz

A dominant 7th scale with a raised 4th (11th). One of the fundamental forms of the dominant chord; also sometimes called 'lydo-mixian'. The scale/chord most appropriate for non-V dominants, such as ...