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Jazz played just a little around mid-afternoon (4)

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I believe the answer is:

trad

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'jazz' is the definition.
(trad jazz is a type of jazz)

'little around mid-afternoon' is the wordplay.
'little' becomes 'tad' (both can mean a small amount).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'mid' means to look at the middle letters (mid- can mean the middle of something).
The central letter of 'afternoon' is 'r'.
'tad' enclosing 'r' is 'TRAD'.

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(Other definitions for trad that I've seen before include "Type of jazz or folk" , "music" , "Conventional (jazz)" , "(Of jazz) traditional" , "Classical (abbr)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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