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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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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

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

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

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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