1. Dizzy Gillespie
The Philosophical and Sociological Developments for Bebop During the 1940's .
When discussing the history of Jazz, an important type of music is developed that changed the music industry. This music, bebop, helped to influence other types of music, and it also let us appreciate jazz more As is so often the case in jazz, when a style or way of playing becomes too commercialized, the evolution turned in the opposite direction. A group of musicians, who had something new to say, something definitely new, found each other reacting against the general Swing fashion. This new music developed, at first in spurts, originally in Kansas City and then most of all in musician's hangouts in Harlem, particularly at Minton's Playhouse, and once again at the beginning of a decade. Contrary to what has been claimed, this new music did not develop when a group of musicians banded together to create something new, because the old could no longer work. The old style worked very well. It also is not true that the new jazz style was developed as an effort on behalf of an interconnected group of musicians. The new style formed in the minds and on the instruments of very different musicians in many different places, independent of each other. But Minton's became a focal point, just as New Orleans had been forty years earlier. And just as Jelly Roll Morton's claim to have "invented" jazz then is crazy, so would be the claim of any musician to have "invented" modern jazz. This new style called bebop was like, onomatopoetically, the then best-loved interval of the music: the flatted fifth. The words "bebop" or "rebop" came into being, when someone attempted to "sing" these melodic leaps. Bebop, which was also called bop, was the fist kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940's. The most important musicians who gathered at Minton's where Thelonious Monk, piano, Kenny Clarke, drums, Charlie Christian, guitar, Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet, and the altoist Charlie Parker.
The approach is either a jam session in a swing style with collective improvisation opening or closing the performance; or the horns scored in harmony in a big-band-type arrangement Bebop In the 1940's some Jazz musicians began to break away from swing music and involved a new style of Jazz known as Bebop. The Bebop era represents for many the most significant period in Jazz history. ... Charlie Parker, an alto saxophonist, was a key figure in the development of Bebop along with Louis Armstrong and trumpeter Dizzy Gilles pie. Bebop was a Jazz style that stressed melodic improvisatio...
By lumping the music of all large jazz bands together marketers overlook the different kinds of jazz that large groups have performed: swing (Duke Ellington and Count Basie), bebop (Dizzy Gillespie), cool (Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis, Shorty Rogers, Gil Evans), hard bop (Gerald Wilson, Charles Mingus), free jazz (some of Sun Ra's work after the l950s) and jazz-rock fusion (Don Ellis's and Maynard Ferguson's groups of the 1970s). ... For them, the strategies of arranging and soloing that were established during the 1930s link all large jazz ensembles more than the different rhyth...
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"Straight No Chaser" is notorious for being a brilliantly composed and performed piece from Thelonious Monk. It has over time become a jazz standard and is known by most if not all jazz listeners and performers. Monk composed this piece at a young age. This recording of "Straight No Chaser...
From Thelonius Monk, and his bebop, to Dizzy Gillespie's big band, to Miles Davis' cool jazz, or to John Coltrane's free jazz; America's music has been developed and refined countless times through individual experimentation and innovation. ... Gillespie had been a very significant figure in the bebop movement. Bebop was a style of jazz, popular during the late thirties and forties. ... He accepted an apprenticeship with "The High Priest of Bebop-, Thelonius Monk. ... It knowingly kept away from the structured sounds of the bebop and cool jazz eras. ...
These four characteristics bled into the Americas, and in the U.S, resulted in a chain of unique music genres including blues, jazz, ragtime, bebop, and rock. ... Also, these four characteristics are seen throughout all types of jazz, including New Orleans, Big Band, Bebop, Cool, and Free jazz. ... After the heyday of Big Band arrangement, Bebop emerged in New York City in the late 1940s. ... Finally, this music made the piano, drums, and bass important solo instruments, as in Bebop, all instruments played an equal role. ... Rock is built upon the blues vocal style, combined with the popul...