bebop
bee bop
- n an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- v dance the bebop
- Among the loudest horn blowers in jazz and a venerated sideman for greats like Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, he was one of the rare masters of bebop--a jaunty sound previously .
- Gangsta rap, with its narrative tales and its cinematic funk-driven sound, offered a distinct alternative to the tricky bebop gymnastics of the freestyling East Coast.
- Captured in a low-fi taping by Mingus and Roach, the concert showed what bebop--and live jazz--was all about.