Jazz Phrases

Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin song)
• All that jazz
• American Patrol (Glenn Miller song)
• Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong song)
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Close enough for jazz
• Ditty Bop (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Get down and get funky
• Get into the swing of it
• He's on the jazz. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Hello Dolly (Louis Armstrong song)
• I'll swing for you
• In The Mood (Glenn Miller tune)
• In full swing
• In the swing
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• Jazz it up
• Jazz it up! (Zattaran's Rice Products advertising slogan)
• Jive talk
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Mood Indigo (Irving Berlin song)
• Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller tune)
• No room to swing a cat
• Pennsylvania 65000 (Glenn Miller tune)
• Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk tune)
• Saturday In The Park (Chicago song)
• Strut your funky stuff
• Sultan of Swing (Nickname of Wasim Akram - Pakistani cricketer)
• Swing both ways
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Swing for the fences (A baseball expression meaning try for a substantial gain)
• Swing in the wind
• Swing the lead
• Take Five (Dave Brubeck tune)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Take a swing at
• Take cuts at someone (A baseball expression meaning taking a verbal swing or striking a blow at a reputation)
• The Jazz Singer (Al Jolson movie)
• The King of Swing (Nickname of Benny Goodman)
• Tuxedo Junction (Glenn Miller song)
• Up the tempo
• Wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom
• Zoot suit