hard bop

American  

noun

1. an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz.

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hard bop British  

noun

1. a form of jazz originating in the late 1950s that is rhythmically less complex than bop

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