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Form of jazz that doesn't need be! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bebop

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This might be a double definition.

'form' is the first definition.
(I have seen 'Form of jazz ' mean 'bebop' so perhaps 'form' could also mean 'bebop')

'jazz that doesn't need be' is the second definition.
'bebop' can be an answer for 'jazz' (bebop is a kind of jazz). I'm not sure about the remainder of the definition.

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for bebop that I've seen before include "1940s' form of modern jazz" , "Fast, complex jazz" , "Monk composed this" , "kind of jazz" , "Jazz genre" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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