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.

Nearby words

strictly decreasing function, strictly increasing function, stricture, stricturotomy, stride, stride piano, strident, stridor, stridulate, stridulous, strife

Origin of stride piano

First recorded in 1950–55