Word: bebop
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...Businesses like mine are going to fail, and real estate values are going to go down," said Gary M. Stoloff, owner of BeBop Burrito in The Garage...
...combination of ludicrous technical skills with a style that is thoroughly grounded in a traditional jazz feel. On "Ornithology," a challenging Charlie Parker tune. McBride played faster, louder, cleaner and more lyrically than Redman. It is not normal for a bass-player to manhandle a saxophonist playing bebop, but McBride is the Bird of the Bass...
...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...