lounge music

noun

1. a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.

Example Sentences

Van Halen’s singer David Lee Roth was an outlier, a flamboyant scenery-chewer whose tastes ranged from show tunes to the Latin lounge music of Louis Prima.

From Los Angeles Times

The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken - a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, pedal steel guitar, the kind favored by country and western purists.

From Washington Times

The song is gothic lounge music for a listener who only has about two minutes to have their heart broken — a silky soft slow burn stacked with a choir, organ, bass and most critically, pedal steel guitar, the kind favored by country and western purists.

From Seattle Times

But mostly we hear an original score by the D.J. and composer Erica Blunt that largely sounds like hotel lounge music from the early 2000s — samples of muted trumpet with beats.

From New York Times

He says it's "infused by house, jazz, lounge music, bringing all those sounds together with really joyful and unique dances."

From BBC