boppish
adjEtymology From bop + -ish.
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In the bop style
- The strategy of using two standard tunes and two boppish originals on the first session (23 February 1945) set the pattern for subsequent dates.1990, John Chilton, The Song of the Hawk, →ISBN, page 226:
- With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
- Derived terms
- boppishly, boppishness