a century of "jazz"

[Ben Zimmer]

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

--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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