stackyFACTSBefore it became the sophisticated background noise for fancy dinner parties, the word itself was pure street-level slang. It was widely used by early twentieth-century youth to describe something energetic, chaotic, or wildly unhinged, making it the absolute perfect label for the wildly improvised new horn music.
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