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How to pronounce “jazz”

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Pronunciation guide for jazz

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of jazz with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The Book of Changes: Jazz in Chinajazz in the 1920s and '30s.
Definition summary: (music) 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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The Book of Changes: Jazz in China

jazz in the 1920s and '30s.

[Noun]
(music) 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.
(figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
(with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
Nonsense.
(slang) Semen, jizz.
A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
[Verb]
(slang) To destroy; to ruin.
To play (jazz music).
To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
(slang) To complicate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
(intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
(intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around. [from 20th c.]
(slang, transitive) To distract or pester.
(slang) To ejaculate.