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Type of jazz

Examples of trad

trad
Old fashioned petitions are largely dead and trad media campaigns are pretty dull.
From the eu.techcrunch.com
Trad pub with typical English grub is devoted to Conan Doyle's famous sleuth.
From the metro.co.uk
But there's still plenty for more trad design-lovers to feast their eyes on.
From the guardian.co.uk
Trad music is especially popular in Dingle, Doolin, Galway, and Dublin.
From the kansas.com
This was very good, though pretty trad and didn't, for me, do anything new with the genre.
From the telegraph.co.uk
For all that, SP's delivers impeccable classics, both modern and trad.
From the theaustralian.com.au
As long as I can get people to play it, I know there'll be people to listen to trad jazz.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
We compared notes and realised that we'd both played in exactly the same trad jazz band.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
After this tour, a night at an Irish pub listening to trad will hold much more meaning.
From the kansas.com
More examples
  • Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
  • (Trads) or "traditional" skins, who pretend not to be racist so the wetbacks and black person on their construction crews don't kick their asses... but they are still not racist.
  • (Traditional) the Jazz style of the of the early 1900s, known retrospectively as Dixieland. Used a marked 4/4 beat, triadic harmony, 'sectional' tunes (with numerous separate sections), simultaneous improvisation, largely I - IV - V type harmonies, etc.
  • A person who adheres to the principles of traditional climbing: to place and remove the protection used on a climb; to use no device or technique that will scar the rock or mountain.
  • Trad or Traditional climbing requires a leader to place his own protection, rather than merely clipping into bolts. The term gained popularity in the late 1980s with the development of Sport Climbing routes-climbs that were pre-protected with bolts.
  • A shortened form of the word 'tradition'. Often used when witches are corresponding with one another such as, "What is your trad?" See 'tradition' for a definition.
  • Term given to the jazz style of the 1920's.
  • Short for traditional^1.