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Funk
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=funk&page=2 Black Music: In former days it was used as a bad word for describing the alleged black Americans odor. About the late 50ties black people in America adapted the word and turned it into something positive (like say did with other words as well like 'bad'). So it became an expression reserved for black people meaning their lifestyle and upcoming self-confidence. Especially in Jazz music at that time it was a new style/type of playing called funky (e.g. Horace Silver and Jimmy Smith) which found it's way in the 60ties into R'n'B music and led to the creation to Funk music in the late 60ties with protagonists like James Brown, the meters, sly and the family stone and the bar kays... Funk had it's peak between the early and midseventies, before Disco came as a kind of fake-funk. Funk also can be seen as predecessor for Disco and for contamporary musical styles like Hip Hop, Acid Jazz, Drum'n Bass, House, Big Beat and Crossover/Funkrock/Funkme tal. Which (exept the latter) all sample Funk Music.

James Brown: "It's got to be funky" and "Make it funky" Lee Dorsey: "Everything I do gonna be funky from know on" "James Brown's "the funky drummer" is one of the most sampled Funk songs"

Jazz
Technical (boring) definition: Jazz is a now-unpopular genre of music, encompassing several distinct styles, developed for the most part by black men in American cities over the course of the 20th century. Jazz in general is characterized by the following: -improvised solos (though they can also be written out beforehand, and, especially when recorded, are often somewhat planned out) -a rhythm section consisting of bass, drums, piano and sometimes guitar -syncopation -bass lines which are improvised to fit the chords, usually with one note on every downbeat, and which rarely, if ever, stop -an uneven style of playing eighth notes so that the downbeat lasts roughly twice as long as the upbeat (this is known as "swing" eight notes) -extended chords (7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords) as pioneered by 19th century composers in the classical "impressionist" movement -4/4 time -the common lack of vocals -2 common song forms: the traditional 32-bar AABA song form, and the 12-bar blues form

Colloquial (less boring) definitions: “Jazz,” originally a noun used mainly in Harlem in the beginning of the 20th century to mean “sexual intercourse,” is also used as a verb in the phrase “to jazz ===(something) up,” meaning to add style, individuality, soul, or passion to something. "If haven't figured it out by now, you'll never know." -Louis Armstrong "The say music speaks louder than words, so I'll just let the music speak for itself." -Charlie Parker

Your place looks like you just moved in; you should jazz it up. Kenny G is an insult to jazz.

Ragtime
A form of syncopated music with a lively melodic line and a steady bass line that was popular from 1890-1920.

When a female goes through that certain period of her menstrual cycle.

Dude, look at your pants...I think it's ragtime

Rock and Roll
Describes the old 1950's music, but originally slang for sex. Ex: Baby, stop jivin' me, -let's "rock and roll."

Jive
May be used as a: Noun - an odd form of speech. Ex: That "Jive" doesn't fool me. Verb - to fool someone. Ex: Stop "Jiving" me, will you. Adjective - phoney or fake. Ex: He's one "Jive" dude.

jellyroll
1) (n) In the parlance of 1930s blues, the female pudenda. 2) (n) Female sexuality, female attractiveness 3) (n) Sexuality in general. EG 1) She shook her jellyroll at the deacon. 2) Her jellyroll is good, but it ain't as good as mine. 3) I ain't gonna give you none of my jellyroll.

Jam
jiz, sperm, semen, cum, spermatozoa

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=jazz "Boogie-woogie" was once slang for syphilis. ...

A Passion for Jazz! Etymology of Jazzof Musical Terms. Jazz Improvisation Method Books ... 'jelly roll' is black slang from the nineteenth century for the vulva, with various related meanings, ... www.apassion4jazz.net/etymology.html - Similar pages

Scat
1) abbreviation of scatophagy, meaning the consumption of excrement. 2) Defecation or faeces. 3) Substitute for the word shit

1) Don't do that scat here. 2) I need to take a scat. 3) Oh scat!! That must've hurt.

http://www.40north.org/jazzthreads/jazzyarns/thewordjazz.html

The Word "Jazz" Excerpted from Jazz Anecdotes by Bill Crow, Oxford University Press, 1990 Many attempts have been made to pin down the origin of the word, "jazz," none completely successful. Some scholars have detected roots in Africa and Arabia, and others hold, with perhaps a little more evidence, that it stems from the French verb jaser, meaning "to chatter." There are speculations that the word arose from corruptions of the abbreviations of the first names of early musicians: "Charles" (Chas.) or "James" (Jas.). Another source claims that a Chicago musician called Jasbo Brown was the genesis of the term.

Some historians find origins in slang terms for semen (gism, jasm). It is true that "jazzing" was widely used as a word meaning fornication, but no one has been able to determine for sure that this usage preceded the musical reference. Some early jazz musicians have remembered hearing "jazz" used erotically in both New Orleans and San Francisco around the turn of the century.

One story offers perfume as a possible source of the word. When he was a young man working in a circus band in Louisiana, Garvin Bushell discussed the subject with some older musicians: They said that the French had brought the perfume industry with them to New Orleans, and the oil of jasmine was a popular ingredient locally. To add it to a perfume was called "jassing it up." The strong scent was popular in the red-light district, where a working girl might approach a prospective customer and say, "Is jazz on your mind tonight, young fellow?" The term had become synonymous with erotic activity and came to be applied to the music as well.

In 1916 Johnny Stein's band from New Orleans was playing a style of music that was new in Chicago. H. O. Brunn describes how "jazz" became the name of the music they played: It was during their run at Schiller's that the word "jazz" was first applied to music. A retired vaudeville entertainer, somewhat titillated by straight blended whiskey and inspired by the throbbing tempos of this lively band, stood at his table and shouted, "Jass it up, boys!"

"Jass," in the licentious slang vocabulary of the Chicago underworld, was an obscene word, but like many four-letter words of its genre it had been applied to anything and everything and had become so broad in its usage that the exact meaning had become obscure. Harry James, the manager of Schiller's, never missed a bet. When the inebriate bellowed forth "Jass it up, boys!" the thinking machinery of the Chicago café expert was set in motion. The tipsy vaudevillian was hired to sit at his table and shout "Jass it up" every time he felt like it—all drinks on the house. The next day the band was billed, in blazing red letters across the front of Schiller's:

STEIN'S DIXIE JASS BAND

Chicagoans then had a word for the heretofore unnamed music.

After some personnel changes, the band was booked into Reisenweber's restaurant in New York.

Ragtime's lusty successor had finally completed its evolution from "jass" to "jasz" to jaz" and, in the New York Times of February 2, 1917, we find the first appearance of the word spelled "jazz." Reisenweber's ad on the amusement page of that issue vaunted "The First Eastern Appearance of the Famous Original Dixieland Jazz Band." Nick LaRocca avers that the word "jass" was changed because children, as well as a few impish adults, could not resist the temptation to obliterate the letter "j" from their posters.

Ralph Berton has another candidate for first use of the word. He gives the following account: In 1915 a vaudeville hoofer-&-comic named Joe Frisco, playing a date in New Orleans, heard a white spasm band, as it was called locally (homemade instruments & komic kapers), playing a kind of cheerful burlesque of the music they'd learned in black red-light districts, etc. Frisco got them a gig at Lamb's Café, in Chicago, billed as "Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland." Business was good; they were held over.

Respectable union musicians resented the invaders, and placed an ad denouncing them as players of "nothing but cheap, shameless JASS music." The shocking four-letter word had a predictable effect. The next week Lamb had to put in forty extra tables, and thoughtfully changed their billing to "Brown's JASS BAND from Dixieland." It was the first known public use of the phrase.

There may never be a clear determination of who used the word first. At any rate, it quickly became the universal term for music improvised to hot rhythm. Nathan W. Pearson, Jr., describes the dim view taken by certain moralists against the new music: Protests against jazz were plentiful. The town of Zion, Illinois, for example, banned jazz in January 1921, ranking it with tobacco and alcohol as a sin their citizens could do without. The term "jazz" itself was felt by many to have a sexual connotation. Worse, its rhythms and the "wild" dancing it elicited were feared to be leading young people to sexual abandon and degeneracy. Given the times, such fearful expressions probably heightened interest in the music and its social setting.

Whatever the origin of the word "jazz," it has resisted many attempts to change it. Duke Ellington never approved of the word, preferring more dignified terminology. He said: By and large, jazz always has been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. The word "jazz" has been part of the problem. The word never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing "Negro music." But it's too late for that now. This music has become so integrated you can't tell one part from the other so far as color is concerned.

Others expressed the hope that the music could rid itself of the "stigma" of the sexual connotation. Efforts during the 1930s and '40s by music magazines to invent a new word resulted in lame substitutes like "ragtonia," "syncopep," "crewcut," "Amerimusic," and "Jarb."

As we enter the 1990s, the sexual connotation of the word has almost completely faded away. "Jazz" is now used to identify a variety of musical forms, as well as a style of Broadway theater dancing, a patented exercise regimen, a toilet water, a basketball team, and a brand of computer software.