JAZZ BAND
Photo slideshow at left is of the Yosemite High School Jazz Band. They were taken at a Disney Land competition while others were taken at the YHS theater. The slideshow starts automatically as soon as you hit this page.
Director
Randy Hyatt
Assistants Pat Mierkey and Sandra Schaefer
JAZZ –noun
1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century
and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles,
generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble
playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic
idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
2. a style of dance music, popular esp. in the 1920s, arranged for a large
band and marked by some of the features of jazz.
3. dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily
motions and gestures.
4. Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.
5. Slang. insincere, exaggerated, or pretentious talk: Don't give me any of
that jazz about your great job!
6. Slang. similar or related but unspecified things, activities, etc.: He
goes for fishing and all that jazz.
–adjective
7. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of jazz.
–verb (used with object)
8. to play (music) in the manner of jazz.
9. Informal.
a. to excite or enliven.
b. to accelerate.
10. to play or perform jazz music.
11. Informal. to act or proceed with great energy or liveliness.
13. jazz up, Informal.
a. to add liveliness, vigor, or excitement to.
b. to add ornamentation, color, or extra features to, in order to increase
appeal or interest; embellish.
c. to accelerate.
(Or something like that!)
Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; 1915–20 for def. 5; orig. uncert.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jazz+up)