Jizz/Legends

Jizz was an upbeat, swinging genre of music, most notably performed by the Modal Nodes and Max Rebo Band. Subgenres of jizz included the styles of jizz-wail, aubade, and glitz. Also, jatz is slightly similar to jizz.

Other notable jizz bands included Bobolo Baker's All-Bith Band, Evar Orbus and His Galactic Wailers, Hutt, Figrin D'an II and the New Modal Nodes, and The Sozzenels.

Jizz instruments

 * Bass Viol
 * Bandfill
 * Clak Beepbox
 * Dorenian Beshniquel
 * Fanfar
 * Gasan string drum
 * Jizz
 * Jizz-box
 * Kloo horn
 * Mood synthesizer
 * Nalargon
 * Ommni box
 * Peel rod
 * Ploong sounder
 * Red ball organ (Red Ball Jet Organ)
 * Slitherhorn (traz)

Behind the scenes
Jizz (and its name) are most likely derived from the popular real-world American music genre jazz, as it presents many of the same rhythms that jazz does: namely the genres of swing, rock, ragtime and in some cases bossa nova. Jizz also reflects the same style of band construction used in jazz (i.e. in jazz a piano, bass, and drum set make up the rhythm section, where as in jizz, a bandfill, red ball organ, etcetera are used). The melody line in both jizz and jazz is usually played by a wind instrument or sung by a vocalist.

The Return of the Jedi novelization introduced the term "jizz-wailer" to describe a musician, but the term "jizz" on its own, as the name of the musical style, was not introduced until the publication of Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, twelve years later.

The packaging of the 2007 Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes action figure 5-pack refers to the band's music as "jazz", which may indicate that "jizz" is being phased out of Star Wars canon. More likely, Hasbro may have simply not wanted the term, synonymous with semen, to appear on a toy package. Ironically, both "jazz" and "jizz" are etymologically very closely related.

Appearances

 * The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick
 * A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale webstrip
 * The Paradise Snare
 * Rebel Dawn
 * We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novel
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
 * Empire Blues: The Devaronian's Tale
 * A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi junior novel
 * And the Band Played On: The Band's Tale
 * Slave Ship
 * Planet of Twilight
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial