Word: bebop
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Lincoln soon began to make a name for herself. In 1957 she fell in love with Max Roach, the great bebop percussionist, whom she married five years later. The civil rights movement was gathering momentum, and Lincoln got swept along in it. She was one of the first black women to wear her hair in a natural, Afro style, and her music underwent a similar transformation. In 1960 she sang on Roach's Freedom Now Suite, an urgent blast against America's homegrown version of apartheid. She also starred in Nothing But a Man, a poignant 1962 film about...
...marijuana music may seem just another reworked '60s social trend that was created by their generation. Actually, says Richard Cowan, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, it has roots in several decades. Steve Bloom, music editor of High Times, points to the bebop-jazz musicians of the '40s as influences on many pro-pot hip-hop performers. Re-Hash Records has released Marijuana's Greatest Hits Revisited, new versions of reefer songs written between the '30s and '70s. "We didn't start this," acknowledges B-Real of the rap group Cypress Hill, who says...
...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...