Word: bebop
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...spiritual rebirth triggered a musical awakening as well. Though he played admirably with Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and other bebop pioneers, Coltrane's no-holds-barred style did not blossom until he recorded his own albums in the late '50s and early '60s. A new boxed set, The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane, captures this fertile period, collecting tracks from 10 previously released albums, along with a full CD of rehearsals and outtakes from his first important album, Giant Steps...
...encrusted sanctimony from We Shall Overcome, rediscovering the splendor of its pride, and find a perfect ecumenical grace in Danny Boy. "Initially I was a little apprehensive about the format," Jones admits. "We were unsure as to how people would accept spirituals played in the same context as bebop or modern jazz." Playing off each other, against and around each other, flirting with the melody and firing the spirit, he and Haden prove that it's not the context that counts as much as the soul...
...carrying the great blind pianist's music satchel from gig to gig. Jones developed his own keyboard style, taking some of Tatum's breakneck invention and adding a measure of cool, a distinctive touch of romantic reserve to offset the fire of what came, in time, to be called bebop. Jones was also a sideman for Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; he went to school with the best...
...preparation is paying off. Since his first gig, in 1990, he's had steady work. "I'm like a snowball rolling downhill," he says. He can even afford his own apartment now. Gettin' to It showcases his wide-ranging skills-in swing, bebop, blues, free jazz-and his full, throbbing sound. McBride may be the most promising and versatile new bassist since Charlie Mingus. To some people, that may not sound so sexy, but for jazz fans, it sure is exciting...
...ebullient age of bebop and charades and Sea Breezes and the new cellophane-wrapped cigarette packages; of returning soldiers and their wives conceiving the first baby boomers; of the goods and services that grew up around those families, from Levittown to Dr. Spock's baby book to frozen orange juice. But 1946 was a troubled time for Truman. His failed health plan was just a small part of an ambitious attempt to continue Franklin D. Roosevelt's activist domestic agenda. Truman found himself blocked by Roosevelt's nemesis: a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. The economy, although sound...