Slangin'

Good afternoon to all,
hope your weekend is going well.

Within the past couple of days, I had a chance to see a couple of good movies, Ray (the Ray Charles movie starring Jamie Foxx), and Bird (the Charlie "Bird" Parker story starring Forest Whittaker). Seems that both of those musical geniuses had the same problem, the proverbial "monkey on their back, the golden arm, love of the horse, etc., etc." That got me to thinking that it might be fun to look up some slang terms from the Golden Age of Jazz, when the cool cats were out there doin' their thing, forging the way for music to evolve in the way we enjoy it so much today. No matter what kind of music you might listen to, it's safe to say that it was somehow effected by the Jazz Age (yes, even Metal and Country music). *LOL It was amazing to see just how many of those terms have survived to this day, and have become part of our every day lexicon. Here's the link to the interesting site I found, it's worth taking a look.