Word: bop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco, there is nothing left except Bop City, a 2 to 6 a.m. place where jazz musicians gather after their commercial gigs to take turns playing. In one morning, one might hear 20 or 25 good jazz musicians, all of whom must play low-class music by day in order to live...
Charles Njoku has decided to give his ailing knee a rest. A sore elbow will keep Bop Welch out of the Javelin competition...
...mini-neighborhoods, each with its own trace of accent, its own numbered Main Street. Don't register surprise when you turn a corner in New York and find a different town: Walk reconstituted from the graceful spirituality of Riverside Church; you are a matter of blocks from the be-bop, voodoo jungle of Harlem. Gaze down from the tallest, plushest apartment building, and spy a slum at its feet. The very old is never far from the very new. Nor the very rich from the very poor...
...State of Grace. Since 1939, when Powell first soared to prominence as a 15-year-old boy wonder, his entire career has been a long, tense battle with drink, drugs and derangement. He sat in at the birth of bop at Minton's Playhouse in New York, toured with Cootie Williams' Orchestra. Then in 1945 he suffered the first of a series of breakdowns that have kept him in and out of mental hospitals ever since. He formed his own trio in 1949 and was soon the dominant pianist in jazz and the idol of a generation...
...Bop Ruled the Night. The esthetic decline involved in this defection is all but unthinkable to Birdland's old habitues, who knew the place as the remaining link to the great days of the early '50s, when bop ruled the night on 52nd Street and Broadway. The club was christened in honor of Charlie "Bird" Parker, and its stars have been mainly his musical descendants. Now Miles Davis is no longer welcome, and neither is Thelonious Monk or John Coltrane; their music, Goodstein thinks, has become too involuted and personal to please Birdland's current customers...