Jazz slang

What do you know about jazz words/slang used and created by the big artist of jazz.

I've been looking for another word they used to refer to musicians other than cats. i know that Cab Calloway brought a book or did a speech on the jazz lingo. but i still cant find another terms other than cats or alligator. i was just wondering if anyone knew of anything that could help me and if you do, do you know the meaning behind them.

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I remembered some more:

Edited by js - 11 Sep 2018 at 5:28pm

^ Clams, blow, chops, those are all still very common, the other terms belong to another era though.

Take a ride - play a solo

By the way, some threads got moved around, let me now if you can't find anything.

Also what would your definition of ragtime be?

Besides the early piano genre which i know what an early genre of jazz (which is what i used to think it was only referred to) i've now found it used to describe early dixieland and also types of tap dance (from the film musical Oklahoma!)

In terms of it as dixieland where does the difference in the two come or is there one at all or is this just another term used both having the same meaning?

i will check it out now ive been looking for a reliable site or source of information as every site i go on says something different to the last one so at least with this i will know. thanks :)