Chicago style

American  

noun

1. a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.

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Etymology

Origin of Chicago style

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

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From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

From there, you can go true Chicago style and add the "garden"—sweet relish, pickles, tomatoes and onions.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 21, 2016

Sidney Bechet and Lionel Hampton pack crowds into music halls, and local imitators of the Chicago style, like crew-cut Clarinetist Claude Luter, have become some of youth's few heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In true Chicago style, Cook County's Coroner Walter McCarron, a politician and trucker with no medical training, leaped happily into the case�and the headlines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their car, or rather their train of cars, coupled together in threes, in Chicago style, came, and Landry escorted them down town.

From The Pit by Norris, Frank