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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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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

With its distinct log drum, the South African invention is a blend of deep house, kwaito, jazz, and lounge music.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2022

Fatoumata Diawara, the incendiary Malian vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, headlined a bill in Zankel Hall that also featured Chimurenga Renaissance, a transnational band mixing hip-hop, lounge music, Zimbabwean protest songs and Afrobeats.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022

Combined, the pair’s short, schizophrenic songs jump from genre to genre as if they’re racing through some obstacle course: from speed-metal to candlelit lounge music to horror-core to breakbeat-driven soul-funk to skronky jazz and beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2021

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

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