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. Cf. bop 1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz .
HARD BOP
Meaning of HARD BOP in English
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012