boppish
Americanadjective
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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
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
The alto saxophonist Steve Coleman and the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson followed with a circuitous duet, variously pointillist or boppish.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2010
Chicagoan Miller will please "progressives" with his tricky beat and boppish chording.
From Time Magazine Archive
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