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JAZZ GLOSSARY (from "Jazz Styles" by Mark C. Gridley):

antiphonal: definition

arco: definition

atonal: definition

attack: definition

ballad: definition

big band: definition

blue note: definition

blues: definition

bomb: definition

boogie woogie: definition

bop (bebop): definition

break: definition

bridge: definition

broken time: definition

chops: definition

chord progression: definition

chorus: definition

collective improvisation: definition

comping: definition

cool: definition

counterpoint: definition

Creole-: definition

decay: definition

Dixieland style: definition

double stop: definition

double-time: definition

Fender bass: definition

fill: definition

free jazz: definition

front line: definition

funky: definition

fusion: definition

hard bop: definition

head: definition

head arrangement: definition

high-hat (sock cymbal): definition

horn: definition

jam session: definition

laid back: definition

lay out: definition

legato: definition

lick: definition

locked-hands style: definition

modal: definition

mode: definition

mute: definition

pedal point: definition

pitch bending: definition

pizzicato: definition

polyrythm: definition

progressive jazz: definition

ragtime: definition

release: definition

rhythm section: definition

ride cymbal: definition

ride rhythm: definition

riff: definition

rim shot: definition

rip: definition

rubato: definition

scat singing: definition

sideman: definition

sock cymbal: see high-hat

staccato: definition

stride: definition

swing: definition

syncopation: definition

synthesizer: definition

Third Stream: definition

tonal inflection: definition

tone color (timbre, tone quality): definition

tremolo: definition

turnaround (turnback, turnabout): definition

two-beat style: definition

vamp: definition

vibrato: definition

voicing: definition

walking bass: definition

West Coast style: definition