All That Jazz

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Speed limit set strictly by the drummer's hi-hat (5)
• Carriage for a single horse, or a one-night stand on the bandstand (3)
• Difficult pop hit that injected rhythm and blues straight back into bebop (7)
• Checkered cartoon blockhead sharing a moniker with Yardbird himself (7)
• Melancholic mood that provides jazz its fundamental twelve-bar backbone (5)
• Cardiac irregularity that makes rhythms jump off the expected pulse (11)
• Antlers worn by front-line players to blow the roof off (5)
• Nuclear joining that plugged jazz straight into rock amplifiers (6)
• Exhausted poet's pulse that keeps the rhythm section honest (4)
• Short, recurring argument between brass and reeds (4)
• Lumberjack's chopper, surprisingly delicate when blown or plucked (3)
• Military audacity found shining in trumpets and trombones (5)
• Long walking step where the left hand leaps across octaves (6)

Down

• Feathered creature nesting at 52nd Street with an alto sax (4)
• Silencer that actually gives brass a whole new voice (4)
• Quick hit on the head, or Dizzy's kinetic revolution (3)
• Tastes an ice cream, or unleashes stock musical phrases (5)
• Sticky spread that gets sweeter when musicians gather after hours (3)
• Femmes fatales repeating short chord progressions endlessly until cued (5)
• Nobleman of Washington D.C. who took the A Train all the way to immortality (9)
• Depressed memo, or a slightly flattened pitch full of sorrow (8)
• Cook without a recipe while making every dish taste brand new (9)
• Telling a feline to scram, or Ella's wordless virtuosity (4)
• Moral principles that every working jazz player must memorize (9)
• Oil barrel maker driving the beat with wire brushes and cymbals (7)
• Rail transport running along giant steps with supreme love (5)

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