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Style of jazz, Auntie heard on gramophone, essentially (5)

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bebop

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(Other definitions for bebop that I've seen before include "1940s' jazz characterised by virtuosity" , "Variety of jazz from the 1940s" , "kind of jazz" , "Syncopated 1940s' jazz" , "Jazz genre" .)

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