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Satchmo's sort of music needs to speed up (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trad

'satchmo's sort of music' is the definition.
(trad jazz - Louis Armstrong was nicknamed Satchmo)

'to speed up' is the wordplay.
'to speed' becomes 'dart' (darting is a kind of speeding).
'up' says the letters should be written backwards (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'dart' back-to-front is 'TRAD'.

'needs' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for trad that I've seen before include "Type of jazz or folk" , "(Of jazz) traditional" , "Classical (abbr)" , "Style of jazz" , "Conventional (jazz)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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