1. Dizzy Gillespie
This was later to become the real genius of modern jazz, as Louis Armstrong is the genius of traditional jazz. One of these musicians, Charlie Christian, is not only a founder of modern jazz but also one of those who created from Swing the basis for the making of modern jazz. There is a whole group of such "pioneers": together the last generation of Swing and pathbreakers for bop. Among the trumpets, it is Roy Eldridge: among the pianists, Clyde Hart; among the tenors, Lester Young; among the bassists, Jimmy Blanton; among the drummers, Jo Jones and Dave Tough; among the guitarists, Charlie Christian. Bebop was an instrumental music. No singer could have made it. Charlie Parker forever changed the fundamental relationship between voices and instruments as it had existed up to that point. Horn players still had to breathe, and so they had to base their phrased on the length of the human breath, but no longer did they need to limit what they played to the boundaries of the voice. They played faster, way beyond what any human voice could make out with clarity, and they played melodies that never were meant to be sung. Bop never came as naturally to the voice as it did to Parker's alto saxophone and Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet and then to the other instruments. The new music may have reassigned many of jazz's basic principles, especially the primacy of the blues, but it was almost only a player's music. Most bop musicians had an unusual technique. They played long, dazzling phrases with many notes, difficult intervals, unexpected breaks, and unusual turns in melodic direction. On slower tunes, they had a good ear for small changes of harmony. Only really skilled musicians were able to play bebop well, and only sophisticated listeners at first appreciated it. In bebop performances, musicians usually played an complex melody, followed with long periods of solo improvisation, and restated the theme at the end.
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...
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...
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. ...