Word: bebop
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...appeared at the January, 1946 concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium at Los Angeles. The air was electric that night, because this was to be a meeting of the titans: Lester Young, the great tenor genius of the Swing Era, going head to head with the new kid in town, bebop genius Charlie Parker. The concert that ensued was one of the most dramatic in jazz history, ranking up there with Duke Ellington's so-called comeback at the Newport Jazz festival a decade later. So how does Daniels treat this legendary event in his biography? He doesn't. He ignores...
...with Hallmark for a line of "Loose Your Spirit" inspirational greeting cards. He preaches regularly to millions on both Black Entertainment Television and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Yet millions more have never heard of him. When they do, new enthusiasts can adopt an awed tone not unlike acolytes of bebop jazz in the '50s or grunge in the early 1990s. Hubert Morken, an independent political-science scholar who had not heard of Jakes until two years ago, ended up profiling him for a book on influential religious leaders. "I was shocked by the guy," he says. "His gifts are colossal...
...these names we apply to things. Hip-hop is like Bebop. Fab 5 is now producing, acting. I think it all blends together, let’s not let nicknames separate us. Hip-hop has a lot to do with poetry...
...helped make the history besides Ellington or Basie rather than have Marsalis evoking times he never experienced, even if you can practically see the tongue of fire over his head when he speaks. But Jazz's seventh and finest episode, Dedicated to Chaos, which chronicles the beginnings of the bebop revolution as well as the coming of hard drugs and the deepening scar of racism, eases away at the end on a note of shattering simplicity. Dave Brubeck, whose music, buttressed by the suave and inventive sax of Paul Desmond, is an important rediscovery here, recounts a childhood incident...
...seen him engage a brilliant economist. He can do it in a detailed way, and the great thing about the President is that he gets into a detailed level with anybody. I've seen him talk about records with David Geffen, where he can talk about an obscure 1950s bebop act, talk economics with investment bankers like Felix Rohatyn and Steven Rattner, talk movies with Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks...