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hard bop
vs.
bebop
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hard bop
hard bop vs. bebop
hard bop
noun
an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz.
bebop
[
bee
-bop ]
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