Fact #89057
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The word ‘jazz’ is first used in print, by journalist Scoop Gleason in the San Francisco Bulletin. Gleason is, however, not writing about music. He is describing the return home of a baseball team, with the words, ‘Everybody has come back to the old town, full of the old ‘jazz’ and they promise to knock the fans off their feet.”
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