syncopator
(ˈsɪŋkəpeɪtə(r))
Also syncopater.
[f. syncopate v. + -or.]
One who performs syncopated jazz music, usu. in a dance band. Freq. pl., in the name of a band.
| 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 13 Jan. 6/3 With Professor Hunt's syncopators providing the dance music programme. 1927 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. 12/1 You may see (and hear) the first ‘Lady Syncopators’,..cutting rhythm into jazz patterns with the best of mere male ‘syncopators’. 1930 Dancing Times Oct. 117/2 The White Star Syncopators, the Cunard Dance Band. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) ix. 94 The swinging Vendome syncopaters took over the stage. 1970 P. Oliver (title) Savannah syncopators. |