trad
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- noun
- /træd/
- Archaic
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tradicional
- Many young artists are now embracing trad jazz, blending it with contemporary styles.
- trad-jazz
- trad music
Examples
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The festival featured several trad bands playing classic tunes from the 1950s.
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During the concert, the audience enjoyed lively performances from various trad musicians.
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McKenna is a huge talent to watch in Scottish and Celtic trad, and this album proves it.
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Archive film of Polish jazz festivals from the 1950s shows Trad rather than Be-bop, When the Saints Go Marching In, rather than Scrapple from the Apple.
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As well as building on the concept of arbitrary naming, the original tunes from which the names derive are all trad-jazz pieces, each marked for improvisation by different instruments.
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I'm usually incredibly averse to albums that mix Irish trad and jazz, but the olllam is one of the rare exceptions that manages to have something new to say in both genres.
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Don't go into this album looking for some cerebral blend of jazz and trad; it's really just an album of three powerhouse musicians having fun breaking and rebuilding the Irish traditions into pleasing sounds.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Trad is short for tradition or traditional, words that mean 'custom' or 'old style'. It is used for the early jazz that was brought back in the 1950s, so calling music trad shows it follows the older, simpler jazz style.