boppish

[ bop-ish ]

adjective

1. in the style of bop music.

Example Sentences

The band Mr. Lawrence fronted from about 1949 to 1951 was called the Elevation band after a boppish tune he and Mulligan wrote, which became a minor jazz classic.

From Washington Post

Those ballads, like “Part V” and “Part VII,” spark against briskly atonal or boppish pieces, gradually building the case for a mature expression that might not have been possible earlier in his career.

From New York Times

His boppish “C.T.A.” first appeared on a recording he made in 1953 with trumpeter Miles Davis, and “For Minors Only” debuted on a 1956 recording featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and alto saxophonist Art Pepper.

From Washington Post

Although he never learned to read musical notation, Mr. Hendricks wrote the lyrics for more than 50 songs recorded by LH&R, including the coolly relaxed “Li’l Darlin ’,” associated with Basie; the boppish “Four,” identified with Miles Davis; and Horace Silver’s punchy “Doodlin’,” which was something of a comic ode to unconscious creativity:

From Washington Post

He sits in his 1980s Buick convertible, listening to boppish piano riffs on the car’s cassette player.

From Wall Street Journal