a century of "jazz"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >
> > My latest column for the Boston Globe is about how the word "jazz"
> > worked its way from baseball to music a century ago. It's a familiar
> > story to most folks here, but it's worth retelling for the hundredth
> > anniversary of the first known appearance of the word.
> >
> > http://b.globe.com/jazzball
>
> For MLB opening day (in Tokyo!), here's my follow-up on Word Routes:
>
> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3196/

I've done a few radio interviews on the topic in the past week...

WBUR (Boston), Radio Boston:
http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/04/09/meaning-of-jazz

WBEZ (Chicago), Eight Forty Eight:
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/bez/2012-04/music-thursdays-tony-sarabia-and-richard-steele-jock-jams-97945

WNYC (New York), Leonard Lopate Show:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/apr/03/ben-zimmer-origin-word-jazz/

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