[Ads-l] Antedating of "Stride" (Jazz Piano Style)

[Shapiro, Fred]

stride, n. (OED, n., 8., c1938)

1933 Dallas Morning News 23 Apr. 6/1 (GenealogyBank)

The Cotton Club Orchestra consists of twelve expert musicians who blow heavily on trumpets and trombones.  They excel in what was once called "low-down" on "dirty" blues but which is known in Harlem jargon as "gut tempo," "growl" and "stride tempo."

Fred Shapiro

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