Word: bebop
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...gave the saxophone to jazz has been blowing a wicked wind for 40 years-and the melodic breeze shows no signs of slackening. Having survived several shifts in jazz taste-swing to bebop to cool-Hawkins remains the busiest tenorman around. As fans at the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival in Cincinnati could testify last week, his swaggering saxophone has lost none of its ingenuity...
...years ago. Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman) announced his intention to make a movie of it in modern dress. As one man. the powerful Society of Men of Letters rose to protest an artistic crime quite as heinous, the word went around, as "having Madame Bovary dance bebop...
...story of repeated failures. His first marriage ended in divorce. In Mexico he got on the marijuana kick; in Greenwich Village he took to Seconal and Benzedrine (he later managed to cure himself of dope). He became a fiery advocate of lost and leftist causes-an authority on hipsters, bebop, Marxism, existentialism. Once, in an excess of underdoggery, he wrote an article defending homosexualism (an idea that revolted him) for the deviate magazine...
...Honey ..." Waldron still spins such platters as Bebop Baby and Black Slacks, still chatters on about his sponsor's solid products, still gives the latest news bulletins every half-hour. But in between, he must find out whom Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice married, define "scyphus," reel off the precautions that should be taken when making an atomic reactor or ponder such posers as how fast a snowball of a given diameter must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something...
...beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie; the thin, sparse sax playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead...