bebop
Example Sentences
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Her bowed tones flow like a violinist’s, her plucked solos sometimes bite like a bebop trumpet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
The bebop groove abandons James, too, slowing into jagged drum solos.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
Hip-hop reminded him of the bebop jazz of his youth.
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024
Heath, who was known as Tootie, was primarily a bebop and hard bop drummer but was adept in a range of styles.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
This frantic, somersaulting style turned within a few years into bebop, the elite modern jazz of the late 1940s and ’50s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
