How to Use bebop in a Sentence

bebop

noun

• Minton's was the birthplace of bebop, back in the 1940s.
  — Joshua David Stein, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2015
• Minton’s was the birthplace of bebop; a fire closed it in 1974.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• His images are inspired by the sounds of bebop, jazz and swing music.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• And Oscar had one foot steeped in the pre-1940s stride piano tradition, and the other in bebop and swing.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• The main genre here is jazz—anything from bebop and contemporary jazz to Latin jazz and big bands.
  — Carrie Hutchinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2018
• Listening to a lot of bebop — Eddie Jefferson- and Jon Hendricks-type stuff.
  — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 18 Dec. 2017
• That big gated snare drum, the sound of the street, the new bebop stuff that was happening, the kids that were dancing on the cardboard slack, that sound, that drum, that aided snare, that big trashy drum.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
• By the time Adjuah was 13, the local musicians were buzzing about the kid who had mastered the complexity of bebop.
  — USA Today, 22 Feb. 2021
• So after some straight-ahead bebop from the University of New Orleans jazz band (their name?
  — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 6 May 2017
• His playing in the swing period pointed the way towards bebop.
  — USA Today, 22 Feb. 2021
• Although New Orleans was steeped in traditional jazz, and rock 'n' roll was the new sound in the 1950s, Marsalis preferred bebop and modern jazz.
  — Author: Janet McConnaughey, Rebecca Santana, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2020
• Although New Orleans was steeped in traditional jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll was the new sound in the 1950s, Marsalis preferred bebop and modern jazz.
  — Rebecca Santana, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2020
• Although New Orleans was steeped in traditional jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll was the new sound in the city’s studios in the 1950s, Marsalis preferred bebop and modern jazz.
  — Time, 2 Apr. 2020
• Although New Orleans was steeped in traditional jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll was the new sound in the city’s studios in the 1950s, Mr. Marsalis preferred bebop and modern jazz.
  — Rebecca Santana, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2020
• This is a virtual concert of cool jazz, island music, swing, bebop, Latin jazz, smooth jazz and vocals.
  — courant.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• There’s very little familiar jazz rhythm, whether New Orleans style two-beat, big-band era 4/4 or faster bebop tempo.
  — Will Friedwald, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Breaking with jazz orthodoxy in the mid-’40s, Charlie Parker pioneered bebop and helped clear the terrain jazz would explore for the next few decades.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Indeed, a trailer of the game resembles the old-timey animations of the past, featuring a spastic bebop-style jazz score.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2017
• Gutsy hard bop, an alliance of bebop and bluesy roots influences, was brewing in the seminal bands of Art Blakey and Horace Silver.
  — Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2019
• Led by award-winning guitarist Roland Balogh, the Finuccis soar whether playing fusion or bebop.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2017
• The biopic will highlight the creative genius of Basquiat, whose life, like his art, was vivid, complex, and punctuated by the influence of jazz, bebop, and hip-hop’s formative years.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 5 Jan. 2022
• Old time, gospel, the drive and sophistication of bebop and western swing all get jumbled together.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• His fleet and fluent bebop was a regular and popular presence on District bandstands like Twins and HR-57.
  — Michael J. West, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• That approach stood in marked contrast to the challengingly complex music known as bebop, which was sweeping the jazz world when Mr. Jamal began his career as a teenager in the mid-1940s.
  — Eric Grode, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
• Whether playing ballads, blues or bebop, his twists and turns of melody and constant rhythmic variety pointed to a musician working very much in the moment.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
• Still, the original tunes written for the movie by Fabrice Leomte are rather fine, persuasively bebop, and blend in well with the eclectic selection of period tunes on the soundtrack.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2020
• Blue Bird Inn, a haven for the Black community and a historic hot spot for bebop jazz, has been facing demolition since 2017, when the building was placed on the city’s dangerous structures list.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 20 July 2022
• One evening the entertainment offered in the lobby was a screening of a Buddy Holly film, a biopic with bebop music, soft entertainment.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2017
• In the nineteen-fifties, Jamal pared down the turbulent textures of bebop to emphasize the expanses of musical space—the perfect placement of the telling note or the emblematic phrase.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• From bebop through the fusion era, trumpet/flugelhorn master Freddie Hubbard played jazz with a sense of daring and a knack for versatility.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024