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As bebop waned and funk and rock music arrived, the 1970s and early ’80s witnessed a shift, not only in sound but also in the way onlookers behaved.—Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025 Reno places a speaker on the table and plays bebop.—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 Modern jazz, bebop, R&B, funk and hip-hop have all been heard at the festival.—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025 In 1940's Sepia Panorama, the cyclical A-B-C-C-B-A form includes an otherworldly chorus of piano and bass call and response that predates bebop by half a decade and includes whole-tone scales and unheard of melodic bass played by 21-year-old Jimmy Blanton.—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bebop
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