Word: bop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admit that some of the disks had merit in a decadent way. But the Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar player. Last week he was fronting a combo of five pieces that was packing them in on the Italian nightclub circuit. Two fair blooms of Scandinavian beauty-Sweden's Princesses Birgitta...
Something Else. Like many a modern jazzman, Coleman is trying to enlarge the content of jazz by allowing for a greater degree of improvisation. Bop musicians, most notably Parker, attempted the same thing in the 1940s by ignoring traditional rests and introducing low-volume rhythmic subtleties that freed soloists from the slogging swing beat. In the late '40s came the cool style pioneered by Miles Davis, with its lagging beat and light, dry sound...
...short the film is basically just a remake of La Bohème with a happy ending and bop instead of Puccini. And though it is at no time authentically beat, it has one thing in common with the beats: dullness...
...escort, Long Island's Peter Sullivan, and with one or another of dozens of stags. Around her jumping collegians and their elders elbowed each other in the blare of the music. Toward morning Henry Ford II climbed on the bandstand and yelled out Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop! (an early-day rock-'n'-roll tune that would have made his grandfather wince), got Meyer Davis to play that as well as his other favorites (It's Only a Paper Moon, Pennies from Heaven}, joined in the singing of the Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King...