jazz

Universal Words noun, verb noun [U] a type of music with strong rhythms, in which the players often IMPROVISE (= make up the music as they are playing), originally created by African American musicians: a jazz band / club * traditional / modern jazz * jazz musicians IDIOMS and all that jazz (spoken, informal) and things like that: How's it going? You know-love, life and all that jazz. verb PHRASALVERBS jazz sth<->up (informal) 1 to make sth more interesting, exciting or attractive: Jazz up the room with some new furniture 2 to make a piece of music sound more modern, or more like popular music or jazz: It's a jazzed up version of an old tune.