boppish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The band Mr. Lawrence fronted from about 1949 to 1951 was called the Elevation band after a boppish tune he and Mulligan wrote, which became a minor jazz classic.
From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2021
Those ballads, like “Part V” and “Part VII,” spark against briskly atonal or boppish pieces, gradually building the case for a mature expression that might not have been possible earlier in his career.
From New York Times • Oct. 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
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
Last week Stan Kenton, a modernist bandleader whose arrangements blend boppish bounce with blood-curdling dissonances, prepared for his Paris debut with understandable misgivings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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