"Jazz" in the LATimes, 1912 & 1917

Dale Coye Dalecoye at AOL.COM
Tue Aug 5 20:23:38 UTC 2003


Maybe a good synonym for "jazz" in these early baseball and movie cites would
be "crazy", a nice flexible word--so a crazy curve ball, crazy comedy (which
could be good or bad depending on the viewer), and even gets us into the more
modern slang "Crazy!" which is close to "Cool!"

DF Coye
The College of NJ



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