Word: bebop
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...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
Soundproofed Walls. After playing "commercial" jazz in Chicago clubs, Tristano moved to Manhattan, got a few jobs, soon began teaching. It was after bebop came along, in the early '40s, that Tristano's new ideas took form. He made a few recordings for Capitol; none sold more than a few thousand copies, but Lennie's name got around. Some records reached hep listeners in Europe, where he is now an advance-guard favorite...
...father of two little girls, "Tuco" (Glowworm) Paz plays the guitar, dances to flamenco tunes, likes bebop, reads Faulkner and Dos Passes. He is the author of a prizewinning book of short stories (The Abyss), detective yarns, unpublished poetry, three volumes on Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine...
...York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...
...loud and Hollywood cafe society couldn't get enough of it. Last week, the Firehouse Five Plus Two was packing Hollywood's slick Mocambo one night a week with four-alarm crowds. To the Firehousers' chief, Ward Kimball, the explanation was simple: "After bebop, jazz sounds solid and melodic. Maybe that's why people are ready...