A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
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"empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk"
"a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles"
"a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands"