| 单词 | to play straight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play (it) straight b. Jazz. to play (it) straight: to play without improvisation, but according to a score or set orchestration. Cf. sense A. 9d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz go1926 ride1929 swing1931 tear1932 to play (it) straight1933 groove1935 riff1935 give1936 jumpc1938 to beat it out1945 walk1951 cook1954 move1955 wail1955 stretch1961 1933 Fortune Aug. 90/3 It seems to be congenitally impossible for Negro dance musicians to play straight. 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz iii. 66 Listen to the tune played ‘straight’, or as written. 1948 W. Manone & P. Vandervoort Trumpet on Wing 26 Then we would play it straight. 1960 M. T. Williams Art of Jazz iii. 18 The average listener is disappointed in anything played ‘straight’. < as lemmas |
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