Word: bebop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JAZZ SINGING: AMERICA'S GREAT VOICES FROM BESSIE SMITH TO BEBOP AND BEYOND by Will Friedwald (Scribners; $29.95). A hip, informative look at the men and women who turned singing and swinging into synonyms...
...search of direct experience and spontaneity. They found it personified in Neal Cassady, a Denver reform-school graduate and car thief with a gift of gab and sexual electricity that connected with the boys as well as the girls. Cassady and Ginsberg became lovers while Kerouac embraced Cassady's bebop monologues as part of his own prose style. Dean Moriarty, the hero and mobile savage of On the Road, is Neal Cassady right down to his pedal foot. "He was," wrote Kerouac early in the novel, "simply a youth tremendously excited with life; and though...
Charlie Parker is in business. That's right. Bird's Billie's Bounce, once a touchstone of bebop, has lately found a second, alternate life. Played on videotape at seminars organized by the Center for Creative Leadership, the Bounce rebounds off the consciousness of assembled managers and executives, freeing them to pursue the goals of increased productivity and higher profits in a very timely fashion...
...currently perched at No. 5. Lyrical in mood, it recalls John Coltrane's great 1962 Ballads album as it rephrases hardy perennials by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Coltrane (with an assist on two tracks from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis). Although Morgan was tutored in the dizzying strictures of bebop by Charlie Parker, his recent playing has become less slashing, his tone more glowing, his lines more feelingly supple. The new sound is certainly enticing, and has helped Morgan get some of the attention he dodged for so long. Last week he was a guest on Jane Pauley's first prime...