gutbucket

[guht-buhk-it] /ˈgʌtˌbʌk ɪt/
noun
1.
jazz played in the raucous and high-spirited style of barrelhouse.
Origin
1925-30; gut + bucket
Examples from the web for gutbucket
  • In his baritone phrasing, thick, romantic tones rose up from the gutbucket into wide clouds of lyricism.
British Dictionary definitions for gutbucket

gutbucket

/ˈɡʌtˌbʌkɪt/
noun
1.
a highly emotional style of jazz playing
Word Origin
C20: from US gutbucket a cheap gambling saloon where musicians could play for hand-outs
Slang definitions & phrases for gutbucket

gutbucket

noun
  1. A strongly rhythmic, emotionally evocative, uninhibited style of jazz: puts toe-tapping tunes atop the complicated counterpoint, so I've started calling this music avant-gutbucket for its brains, historical sweep, and down-home emotion
  2. A fat, pompous person

[1910+ Jazz musicians; first sense fr a New Orleans name for a low resort, where a gutbucket, that is, a beer bucket or a chamber pot, would be used to collect contributions for the musicians; second sense fr the notion of a bucket of guts]