jazz

– noun
1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
2. a style of dance music, popular esp. in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz.
3. dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.
4. liveliness; spirit; excitement.
5. insincere, exaggerated, or pretentious talk.
6. similar or related but unspecified things, activities, etc.
– adj.
7. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of jazz.
– verb
8. to play in the manner of jazz.
9. a. to excite or enliven.
b. to accelerate.

gro·tesque

– adj.
1. odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
2. fantastic in the shaping and combination of forms, as in decorative work combining incongruous human and animal figures with scrolls, foliage, etc.