1913 "jazz";...

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

>    I don't have details on the first sexual uses of "jazz."  If George Thompson could provide them, that would help round out the picture on this topic. But I do know that there is no attested evidence of this use of "jazz" occurring before 1913.
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>    Also, btw, there's no evidence of baseball "jazz" (1913ff.; a few attestations in April 1912) having anything to do with French "jaser" (to chatter). As for the transfer of the term from baseball to music, the likeliest connection is as peppy/energetic music (in Art Hickman's band, even though he didn't like the term "jazz").
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> Gerald Cohen
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