A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.

• 爵士乐源于美国一种音乐风格，以强劲而不失灵活的节奏为特点，配以在基调下的弦乐即兴独奏和合奏、和声和近来愈加艰深复杂配器技巧