postbop
See also: post-bop
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- (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[1]:
- 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.