They were all bopping to the music.
1 to hit someone or something, especially in a friendly way:
to bop someone on the head
2 a type of jazz music first played by small groups in the 1940s
I got a bop on the head.
6 a type of jazz from the 1940s that has complicated rhythms and is often played fast
From even that short perspective, several things about bop had become clearer.
Notably, the students and staff composed all the material on which the improvisations were based, including the bop piece.
His ultimate commitment to bop practice represents the culmination of numerous stylistic choices made over the course of many years of musical activity.
By the 1960s, bop had become the new jazz orthodoxy and would subsequently be opposed to ' free jazz' and, later, fusion.
Reserved for post-bop players, it signifies contempt for the apparent unwillingness, or inability to play bebop.
I am aware that it is misleading, particularly in hard bop and post bop jazz, to conceive or 'hear' melody and harmony in this 'either-or' way.
The values advanced are those of a culture of spontaneity embodied in ' ' spontaneous bop prosody, ' ' emphasising the possibilities of action and interraction within established corporate structures.
The social worker refused to detain the patient, who then went outside and bopped the social worker on the head.
