long underwear n.
(US) jazz music popularized for ‘easy listening’, also classical music.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Benny Goodman in “Swing on This!”’ [comic strip] in Tijuana Bibles (1997) 105: Oh Mr. Goodman – I hope you don’t think I’m long underwear. | |
| Real Jazz Old and New 150: long underwear; concert stuff [W&F]. |
In compounds
musicians specializing in ‘easy listening’ jazz.
| Fortune Aug. 47: Corny music is what generally happens when a sweet band, or long-underwear gang, tries to play hot. | |
| Pic (N.Y.) Mar. 7: Nothing disgusts players of gut-bucket, screwball, and whacky music so much as the Schmaltz or sweet type played by a ‘Long-Underwear gang’. |