bebop

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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

It was prompted by a dinner conversation, where Evangeline suggested the family could just get on Carlile's boat and "bebop up to Canada" if gay marriage was outlawed.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

His playing from the ’40s, when bebop was becoming the principal jazz dialect, still sounds remarkable.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Now we’re focusing on Thelonious Monk, the innovative pianist and bandleader whose angular melodies and dissonant chords made him stand out among his peers in the bebop era.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2023

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