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
And it showcases him in the ideal circumstances found here: alone at the piano, singing songbook ballads at a honey drip and unveiling originals both boppish and searching, approaching the mystical.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2014
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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