Word: beato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joints. At last count, Japan has some 3,000 union-registered jazz musicians noodling away at the out sounds of such current favorites as Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. They have even picked up the lingo, and added soy sauce. Though cool (pronounced "koo-roo") and beat ("beato") survived the Pacific crossing almost intact, the U.S. term funky (meaning earthy) is disparaging Japanese for beatnik. Shinu (literally: I die) means being overwhelmed, and if the sounds are too far out, they are ikareteru (meaning out of order...