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Stomp with energy in older jazz style (5)

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I believe the answer is:

tread

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'stomp' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'energy in older jazz style' is the wordplay.
'energy' becomes 'e' (physics symbol as in E=mcr).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'older jazz style' becomes 'trad' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'e' placed inside 'trad' is 'TREAD'.

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tread that I've seen before include "Walk; part of tyre" , "Trample" , "Step (heavily)" , "way of dancing" , "Grooves on tyre" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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