Word: bebop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bebop: a revolution in two syllables. It jumped off of swing into the high ozone, on the wings of two unlikely angels, Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Together, and with the collaboration of a tight core of players like Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and a few others, Dizzy and Bird drove jazz back into itself, straight through its heart and out again, sounding brand-new. Parker -- the racked jazz saint and junkie genius -- fit the hipster stereotype more than his good-timing, glad-handing buddy. But in matters of chops and talent, Gillespie played a supporting role...
...claimed he seldom listened to his records "because after you've played it, it's all gone anyway." When Dizzy laid it down, though, it changed tomorrow, and it will last forever. That's bebop, and about that there is no question...
...imminent. Still, an irresistibly energetic and shamelessly folksy overgrown cabaret show, Five Guys Named Moe, featuring jazz of the 1930s and '40s and nonstop dancing by an all-black cast, has taken London by storm. It is headed for Broadway next April, complete with group singing of calypso bebop and a whole-audience conga line at intermission...
Encyclopedic is the list of people and objects that have offended the Amis sensibilities: shrinks, the British army, body odor on crowded Prague streetcars, bebop, racist profs at Nashville's Vanderbilt University (where he taught for a semester). Then there are such literati as Arnold Wesker, John Wain, Malcolm Muggeridge and Leo Rosten, author of the H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N stories, whose cardinal sin, apparently, was failing to ply a dinner guest (Amis) with sufficient booze...
...great divide in American jazz took place after World War II, with the emergence of the bebop movement, spearheaded by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie ("Bird") Parker. By the '60s, bebop had largely given way to experimental avant-garde styles. When fusion took over in the '70s -- although some musicians were still playing earlier styles -- many jazz fans began to bemoan the death of a great American tradition...