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noun
a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
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Origin of stride piano
First recorded in 1950–55
Words nearby stride piano
strictly decreasing function, strictly increasing function, stricture, stride, strident, stride piano, strider, stridor, stridulate, stridulous, strife
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