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noun
a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
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Origin of Chicago style
First recorded in 1940â45
Words nearby Chicago style
Chicago Fire, Chicago Heights, Chicago Ridge, Chicago School, Chicago steak, Chicago style, Chicago window, chicalote, Chican@, Chicana, chicane
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