They didn't really have a name for the mixture of Afro-Cuban music and bebop.
"Ah Um" is explicit in its celebration of sounds predating the postwar bebop revolution.
WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten
Bebop House is a hostelcum- hotel that captures the youthful, artistic buzz of Hongik district.
McLean was a musical bridge between post-World War II bebop and the progressive jazz of the 1960s.
The musician was a leading hard-bop trumpeter - a jazz extension of bebop - in the mid-1950s.
In the early 1950s, he was blown away by the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.
And that style helped propel jazz through its most important developments - from swing to bebop to the avant-garde.
's Friday set, after segueing from funk to bebop, the saxophonist walked offstage.
He played fragments of bebop or structured abstraction reminiscent of, say, Cecil Taylor.
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He was also a leader of the radical generation of players, including Dizzy Gillespie, who were fomenting the bebop revolution.
He's insecure about his tone and his improvisational skills, worried about his place in a musical world dominated by Parker and bebop.
Hanging above was a framed photo of pioneering bebop pianist Bud Powell.
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When she was just 16-years-old, she was performing with some of the great names of bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach.
Desmond thrived at medium tempos, separating him from the mass of saxophonists ripping through bebop chord changes in the wake of Charlie Parker .
His piano playing featured hints of both bebop and boogie woogie.
By 1954, he was performing with some of those bebop masters.
Dizzie by now was one of jazz's elder statesmen, whose trademark angled horn and bulging cheeks transformed his image from bebop rebel to beloved clown prince.
Birdland was just north of 52nd Street, at 1678 Broadway, and had opened in 1949, soon assuming a position as one of the premier bebop locations.
Thus he did not share in the bebop vogue of the late 1940s, pursuing his own researches and earning very little, supported by the indefatigable Nellie.
Mingus mashed up bebop, swing and soul, all while leading an avant-garde excavation of the free-jazz latent in New Orleans group improvisation a sort of bluesy Charles-Ives-meets-King-Oliver approach.
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"I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, " he told The Star-Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.
Claxton crossed the country photographing mostly black musicians at their craft from the primal slave songs of rural gospel choirs to the sophisticated sounds of New York bebop and beyond.
There was even a session made under the leadership of Julius Watkins, one of the few jazzmen to try and make a go of the French horn as a bebop instrument.
Legend has it that Gillespie, one of the architects of the bebop revolution with Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, was already playing oddly dissonant solos when he was with Cab Calloway's band in 1939.
In reaction to the pyrotechnics of bebop, with its blizzards of notes and relentless complexities of harmony, Davis presented an ascetic simplicity, with spare melodic improvisations over modal harmonies so static they nearly drone.
WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten
And he was productive: He first worked in the trumpet sections of big bands, until he stepped forward and led the small-group revolution, creating fast, intricate new music known as bebop and pioneering Afro-Cuban jazz.
Accompanied by bass and drums, Roberts spins out a lighthearted interpretation full of surprises: a staccato take on the title line, lush rolled chords that flow like honey, an insistent improvisatory flight with bebop roots.
For New Year's Eve, the Mingus Big Band picked tunes from those records to showcase Mingus' diverse repertoire, including everything from gospel hollers and church music to lush ballads, swinging dance tunes, bebop and the blues.
The trumpeter, whose given name was Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, rose to national prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers later that year, filling the seat in the bebop group held by his idol Clifford Brown.
Johnson had quickly established his eminence in the forties on 52nd Street, his sober, deliberately gloved tone partnering a rapid-fire execution that allowed him to hold his own with the trumpets and saxophones of the bebop small group.
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