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bebopor bopJazz characterized by harmonic complexity, convoluted melodic lines, and frequent shifting of rhythmic accent. In the mid-1940s, a group of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, rejected the conventions of swing to pioneer a self-consciously artistic extension of improvised jazz, which set new technical standards of velocity and harmonic subtlety. Two genres grew out of bebop in the 1950s: the delicate, dry, understated approach that came to be known as cool jazz, and the aggressive, blues-tinged earthiness of hard bop.
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| The poems move easily from swing ("Oh, Miss Kitty, / she's as round as she is tall") to be-bop ("A bippety-bop snake / can't bite my style / But a bippety-bop chick / can stay awhile") to cool ("What can I add with my horn? Be-Bop / the art of breaking and / Entering wounds. Get Joe Lovano talking about his mentors, and the goateed, heavyset tenor saxophonist will rattle off a formidable list of big band, be-bop and free-jazz legends. |
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