jazz

• n. ジャズ、ジャズダンス；ハッスル
• ジャズを演奏する；ジャズを踊る；うろつく
• vt.ジャズを演奏する；にぎやかにする
• adj.
• n. （ジャズ）人の名前；（ドイツ語）ヤッツ

語源は定かではないが、アフリカ語のjasm（エネルギー、活動）、俗語のjism（種）、そして後に黒人ミュージシャンが自分たちの作った音楽形態をジャズと名付けた俗語のjazzに由来すると思われる。しかし意外なことに、この音楽形態は誕生後、瞬く間に世界中に広まり、さまざまなポジティブな意味合いを与えられた。そのため、「ジャズという言葉の起源について真実が知られていたら、礼儀正しい社会では決して語られることはなかっただろう。ファンクを比較せよ。

jazz

jazz: [20] Words of unknown origin always attract speculation, and it is hardly surprising that such an unusual and high-profile one as jazz (first recorded in 1913) should have had more than its fair share (one of the more ingenious and colourful theories is that it comes from the nickname of one Jasbo Brown, an itinerant black musician along the Mississippi – Jasbo perhaps being an alteration of Jasper).

Given that the word emerged in Black English (probably originally in the sense ‘copulation’), it is not surprising that attempts have been made to link it with some West African language, and picture it crossing the Atlantic with the slave ships, but there is no convincing evidence for that (the scenario seems to have got started with a 1917 article in the New York Sun, which was purely the invention of a press agent).

jazz (v.)

"to speed or liven up," 1917, from jazz (n.). Related: jazzed; jazzing.

jazz (n.)

by 1912, American English, first attested in baseball slang; as a type of music, attested from 1913. Probably ultimately from Creole patois jass "strenuous activity," especially "sexual intercourse" but also used of Congo dances, from jasm (1860) "energy, drive," of African origin (compare Mandingo jasi, Temne yas), also the source of slang jism.

If the truth were known about the origin of the word 'Jazz' it would never be mentioned in polite society. ["étude," Sept. 1924]

All that jazz "et cetera" first recorded 1939.

1. Page is well versed in many styles of jazz .

ペイジは多様なスタイルのジャズに精通している。

2.He 's one of the most dynamically imaginative jazz pianits still functioning.

彼は今も活躍している最もダイナミックで想像力のあるジャズピアニストの一人だ。

3.Louis Armstrong defined jazz pithily as "what I play for a living ".

ルイス?アームストロングはジャズを簡潔に「私の糊口の腕前」と定義した。

4.Stephen and I are going to jazz up the love songs.

スティーブンと私はそれらのラブソングに流行を注入するつもりです。

5.Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave ran a jazz workshop for young artists.

トランペットのマーカス?ベルグレイフは、若いアーティストのためのジャズ教室を開いた。