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Among the reasons for choosing Moody for this recognition, Everett explains, was the musician’s innovation and influence in the jazz style of Bebop in the late 1940s, his musicianship with the flute as well as the tenor and alto saxophone, and his love for the music he creates. In addition, Moody is able to make his music accessible, while never abandoning his personal style...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OFA Honors Moody's Jazz | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...genealogical basis of today’s Hipster is in the Beat Generation. The Beat-Hipster’s legitimizing counter-cultural features were the unconventionality of their semi-nomadic lifestyle, the sexual openness, and commitment to expression freed from formal technique. The music, appropriated from Black Americans, was bebop. Most importantly the Beat-Hipsters were sincere...

Author: By Zachariah P. Hughes | Title: A Revised Portrait of the Hipster | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...early encounter had little impact on Newman's career, which successfully spanned nearly five decades. Inspired by the sounds of bebop saxophonist Sonny Stitt, whose control of the instrument Newman called "superb," he became an important part of R&B crooner Ray Charles' crew in the 1950s; one of their biggest hits was "I Got a Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Newman | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Where to Shop Want to de-blandify your Ikea home? Hit the Haga - the city's oldest quarter - and search out a truly unique piece of Scandinavian design. The winding streets here house a dozen antique stores, but the best is Bebop Antik, which specializes in 20th century furniture and furnishings. Run by jazz buff Stefan Tellevi, the shop is crammed with classics, including twisting vases by Swedish glass designer Vicke Lindstrand and minimalist chairs by Denmark's Kaare Klint. 4 Kaponjärgatan; www.bebop.se...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas Spirit in Gothenburg | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...During the Big Band era, drummers unobtrusively maintained a song's rhythm. As a founding father of the revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 3, 2007 | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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