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  • adjective superlative form of jazzy: most jazzy.

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Examples

  • A surprising number of Astaire's jazziest dances, Mr. Decker points out, were not based on existing songs but instead set to instrumentals that had been, essentially, composed as musical complement to Astaire's own original ideas.

    He Just Had to Move Will Friedwald 2011

  • One of the first surveys since a Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 2005, this one dwells on many of the themes that have made Mr. Friedlander the jazziest street photographer since Henri Cartier-Bresson and, at the age of 77, still one of the hardest-working of his breed.

    A Street Photographer's Offbeat American Christmas 2011

  • She seemed most in her element in the wildest, jazziest licks; her hair-trigger coordination in the last movement of the Adams and the variation movement from the Ysaÿe was dazzling.

    In performance: Jennifer Koh 2010

  • The album is a mix of standards, Brazilian music and a couple of new songs, and it's some of the jazziest, most adventurous music either artist has ever recorded.

    Tony Sachs: An Interview with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall 2009

  • "Chances Are," "Misty," "When Sunny Gets Blue" - I always liked that because that was kind of the jazziest song that I sang.

    Golden Year Puts Johnny Mathis on Center Stage 2006

  • I say danced, but that is stretching the word far beyond the wildest dreams of the jazziest terpsichorean.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • I say danced, but that is stretching the word far beyond the wildest dreams of the jazziest terpsichorean.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • Bergstrom's two-piece orchestra was in the throes of its jazziest fox-trot number.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • I say danced, but that is stretching the word far beyond the wildest dreams of the jazziest terpsichorean.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • I say danced, but that is stretching the word far beyond the wildest dreams of the jazziest terpsichorean.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

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