boppish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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His boppish “C.T.A.” first appeared on a recording he made in 1953 with trumpeter Miles Davis, and “For Minors Only” debuted on a 1956 recording featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and alto saxophonist Art Pepper.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2020
He sits in his 1980s Buick convertible, listening to boppish piano riffs on the car’s cassette player.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2016
But the album feels aimed especially at those who understand its context — who recognize “Rhapsody in Blake,” for instance, as a boppish embroidery of the jazz standard “I Hear a Rhapsody.”
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2011
Escreet's piano improvisations, given to starting with a deceptive reflectiveness, erupt into dazzling freefall fireworks, free-jazz squallings turn into boppish cruisers over hip drum grooves, and Binney's electronics introduce zither-like plucked effects here and there.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010
Chicagoan Miller will please "progressives" with his tricky beat and boppish chording.
From Time Magazine Archive
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