Word: bebopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What did Paris think of Parker's bebop? Said one Paris paper: "A force of nature...
Jazz concerts, which most ambitious bandleaders now aspire to, were out, as far as he was concerned. Bebop, the newest fad in such concerts, left him cold. "Hell, Bach did more bebop in one piece than those guys have ever done." Still, he couldn't quite see his reddish-brown hair at Carnegie-Hall length either; the audiences there were "too special, too chi-chi." He settled on a middle solution: playing Carnegie-Hall stuff for a bebop public. He foresaw that it would be a little "like attacking the Great Wall of China with a nail file." Last...
...Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without musically admitting his debt to Armstrong. Louis did it all, and he did it first...
...makes no bones about what he owes to Joe Oliver in the Chicago days: "We never had to look at each other when we played, both just thinkin' the same thing. And he's the one that stopped me playin' all those variations-what they call bebop today. 'You get yourself a lead [melody] and you stick to it,' Papa Joe told me. And I always do." It was the kind of jazz that didn't take written arrangements, if a man had "a lead" and could "cut loose from the heart...
Louis gives the back of his hand to the latest variety of jazz, bebop (or bop). The boppers, who know the way he feels, tend to speak of him in the past tense. "Nowadays," says Negro Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, "we try to work out different rhythms and things that they didn't think about when Louis Armstrong blew. In his day all he did was play strictly from the soul-just strictly from his heart. You got to go forward and progress. We study...