lounge music

American  

noun

1. a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.

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Example Sentences

Van Halen’s singer David Lee Roth was an outlier, a flamboyant scenery-chewer whose tastes ranged from show tunes to the Latin lounge music of Louis Prima.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

But mostly we hear an original score by the D.J. and composer Erica Blunt that largely sounds like hotel lounge music from the early 2000s — samples of muted trumpet with beats.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

He says it's "infused by house, jazz, lounge music, bringing all those sounds together with really joyful and unique dances."

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2023

Vito’s opened in 1953, a paragon of style serving cold martinis, a very popular cannelloni and lots of lounge music on Seattle’s First Hill under owners Vito and Jimmie Santoro.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022

When we got to the Big House, we found Chiron in his apartment, listening to his favorite 1960s lounge music while he packed his saddlebags.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan