Chicago style

American  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of Chicago style

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

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From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

From there, you can go true Chicago style and add the "garden"—sweet relish, pickles, tomatoes and onions.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 21, 2016

Able rhythm organization of musical antiquarians revives an old classic of the Chicago style.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sidney Bechet and Lionel Hampton pack crowds into music halls, and local imitators of the Chicago style, like crew-cut Clarinetist Claude Luter, have become some of youth's few heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

They touched hands, and the blood quickened, the old Chicago style.

From Sunny Slopes by Hueston, Ethel