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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. Compare bop 1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
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