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

Hip-hop reminded him of the bebop jazz of his youth.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2024

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 Max Roach, who, alongside the drummers Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey, helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023

The fact that the ‘new’ was narrowly defined as ‘contemporary classical’ rather than, say, bebop is indicative of this.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall