BEBOP
- to move, go, or proceed (often fol. by on down)
- early modern jazz developed in the early 1940s and characterized by often dissonant triadic and chromatic chords, fast tempos and eccentric rhythms, intricate melodic lines punctuated by pop-tune phrases, and emphasizing the inventiveness of soloists
- a type of jazz [n BEBOPS]
- to play a style of jazz [v BEBOPPED, BEBOPPING, BEBOPS]