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
“You had classical jazz, bebop, rock, pop, and here comes a new form of music that didn’t exist.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023
In the late 1940s, Billy Eckstine’s big band boasted among its ranks some of the rising stars of the bebop era: Blakey, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
