Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "A cutting contest was a musical battle between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisation contests on other jazz instruments during the swing era. Up to the present time, the expression cutting in jazz is sometimes used, sometimes facetiously, to claim a new musician's technical superiority over another.Cutting contests first had a more earnest meaning only among pianists, and later existed for their own sake."@en }
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- Cutting_contest comment "A cutting contest was a musical battle between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisation contests on other jazz instruments during the swing era. Up to the present time, the expression cutting in jazz is sometimes used, sometimes facetiously, to claim a new musician's technical superiority over another.Cutting contests first had a more earnest meaning only among pianists, and later existed for their own sake.".