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jazzy [ˈdʒæzɪ] adj jazzier, jazziest Informal
1. (Music) of, characteristic of, or resembling jazz music 2. gaudy or flashy a jazzy car jazzily adv jazziness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
jazzy Translations jazzy [ˈdʒæzɪ] ADJ (jazzier (compar) (jazziest (superl))) 1. (Mus) → sincopado 2. (= showy) [dress etc] → de colores llamativos, de colores chillones jazzy [ˈdʒæzi] adj (= smart and modern) [product, style] → sophistiqué(e) (= bright and cheerful) [colour] → gai(e) jazzy adj (+er) colour → knallig (inf), → auffallend, schreiend (pej); pattern → wild, stark gemustert, auffallend; dress, tie → poppig (inf), → knallig (inf) music → verjazzt jazzy [ˈdʒæzɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (pattern, design) → vistoso/a, chiassoso/a; (rhythm) → jazzistico/a jazzy [ˈdʒæzɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (pattern, design) → vistoso/a, chiassoso/a; (rhythm) → jazzistico/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A lot of the attack and speed that we associate with Balanchine's work, and the jazziness that you find in many works, are a residue of his encounter with tap in the 1930s," Garafola says. Salle's painting has certainly lost its early bravura nerviness; given the critical apparatus that surrounded it two decades ago, as well as its attitudinal chilliness and the particular cerebral quality of its macho swagger, we might forget the jazziness of its juxtapositions, with its plaids and patterns, its cartoon figures, and its combinations of photographic passages and loose drawing. There is no mention of the "Fosse clump," for instance, or of the considerable influence that the Fosse touch has had on the watered-down jazziness that is such an uncomfortable fit for rock videos, from the tame Michael and Janet Jackson offerings to the aggressively vulgar Fosse parody in Backstreet and Dr. |
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