Sentence examples for bop from inspiring English sources
verb
To strike gently or playfully.
Elsewhere on the carpet Quentin Tarantino is having a bop with Uma Thurman (again), Xavier Dolan is wearing an outrageous tux (again) and the boring normal people at the barriers are wailing for stars' attention (again).
Yes, it could be death, [or] he could think, 'Ah, he'll just bop me', or it could be more.
Swing and big-band had calcified into music for the parents; even bebop and hard bop were ceding ground to the unbounded explorations of John Coltrane and others.
He is unique among these elders in having peaked in his dotage: his world tour of 2008-10, undertoken to make up for $5m stolen by a crooked manager, was a roaring commercial and critical success.Rock is now aligning itself with jazz, blues and easy listening, whose exponents bop till they drop (Tony Bennett returned to the charts in September at 85).
Formed at the height of the popularity of hard bop (which evolved from and incorporated elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues), Cannonball's second quintet, the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, was a success from the beginning.
From the 1950s he led his own bands, the variously constituted Arkestras, which played his own music: an expanded hard bop that included tympani, electric piano, and flute instruments then rare in jazz.
MTV, which went global on the assumption that "A-lop-bop-a-doo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom" meant the same in every language, now includes five calls to prayer a day in its Indonesian schedules.This tendency towards a uniform global model is as acute at the top schools as anywhere.
MTV, which went global on the assumption that "A-lop-bop-a-doo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom" meant the same in every language, now includes five calls to prayer a day in its Indonesian schedules.Spot the differenceMr Ghemawat notes that company bosses lead the pack when it comes to overestimating the extent of globalisation.
When time allows, he jams with the exchange's CFO, who plays be-bop trumpet.
Charlie Christian has long been regarded as the founding father of the electric guitar and key innovator in the new musical language of be-bop.
American jazz musician who played bravura trumpet solos with a harmonic-rhythmic flair that made him the most exciting late-bop virtuoso on his instrument.
