Word: bop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, while Jazz Hot was doing its best to unfuddle bop, curious and carefully shellacked socialites, fringe-faced Left-Bank intellectuals, and, of course, les zazous éternels (hepcats) were packing Paris' big, modern Salle Pleyel to dig the "true groove" for themselves...
...Hugues Panassié had been applauded for bringing Louis Armstrong to blow at his Nice festival last year (TIME, March 8, 1948), but criticized for leaving out U.S. boppers. For this year's International Jazz Festival, rival Jazzman Charles Delaunay was playing it safe by inviting both the bop artists and two-beat specialists from half a dozen European countries and the U.S. The French radio blared out the goings-on for ten days...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
Warming Up. By 7 p.m. the sidewalk in front of Broadway's garish old Harem club, redecorated and renamed "Bop City," was jammed. Inside, the 40 musicians of Artie's new symphony orchestra were warming up, and so was the tight-packed, sweltering crowd. When the musicians were all tuned up, the master of ceremonies solemnly announced "Mr. Artie Shaw." Artie threaded his way through the orchestra with the nervous pace of a Toscanini...
Louis likes playing from the soul. Says he: "That bop is nice to listen to for a while but not all night. It's not jazz-all them variations-it's more an exercise. You've got to have that lead...