postbop

See also: post-bop

English

Alternative forms

• post-bop

Etymology

From post- +‎ bop.

Noun

postbop (uncountable)

1. (jazz) A form of small-group jazz music that emerged in the early 1960s, under the influence of artists such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock
   • 2009 January 12, Nate Chinen, “Acts Onstage (and on the Market) at Three Clubs”, in New York Times‎:

     The drummer Dafnis Prieto, leading a superbly calibrated sextet, chopped up the pulse of his native Cuba with clever feints while borrowing from postbop harmony.

See also

• Post-bop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia