Definition:
: a performer of jazz
About the Word:
The term jazz age — often said to have been coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald (from the title of his 1922 work Tales of the Jazz Age) — is used to describe the period between the end of the First World War and the crash of the stock market in 1929. Fitzgerald did not in fact coin this expression (it had been in use for several years before his book was published), but the 1920s was a decade rich in words to describe the music of jazz. Jazzman began to be used in print in 1926, boogie-woogie dates from 1928, and the vibraphone (which soon became widely used in jazz music) was first so called in 1924.
Example:
"His thousands of admirers are happy to know that no anti-toxin has yet been discovered to cure this master jazzman of his 'illness!'" The Rockford Register-Gazette, 25 January 1927
— Ammon Shea
