stride piano

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, stricturotomy, stride, stride piano, strident, stridor, stridulate, stridulous, strife
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