Word: bop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forever-the crowd hanging on breathlessly-she would suddenly take off, sliding up the scale as fast as any sax to land on a sultry, slightly off-center note. With consummate skill, she flecked moody ballads with flirtatious spoken asides and highly rhythmic scat passages: "Do-be-do-be-bop." She never missed a beat, or a wave of applause...
...real gold dust is not in the oldies but in fusion, which is essentially watered-down jazz, with simpler chords and harmonies, traces of rhythm-and-blues and Latin music, and rock's heavy electronic sound and beat. Miles Davis, 52, who created the "cool" bop sound back in the late '40s, with its relaxed delivery and complex harmonies, also fashioned the first fusion in 1970 with his revolutionary Bitches Brew album. It retained jazz soloing but incorporated electric bass and guitar and a Rhodes electric piano. The result sounded mellow, upbeat and had a heavier rhythm than...
Each new current in jazz has, of course, always faced opposition. The '30s swing music swung at the '40s bop; bop booed the experimental movements of the '50s and '60s. But many jazzmen feel that fusion is not true jazz-and they are right...
...return to our point of departure, I was leaving New York to visit a friend at Princeton and I had it all fastidiously planned. Get on the subway at 10 a.m.; get on 11 a.m. bus out of Port Authority Bus Terminal; get to Princeton by noon, bop around for a few hours and meet my friend at 3. Yeah, tell me about it. The NYC subways being the NYC subways, I got to Port Authority at 11:30, about 10 minutes before another bus (on a different bus line) was schedule to leave. Not too bad, I would only...
...time to talk about football. After you've been rugged and field-hockeyed out, you can bop on down to the Brown Stadium for the 1:30 p.m. kickoff of the Harvard-Brown game. Harvard partisans will be sitting in the north stand, which is apparently an unfortunate fate. I'll be sitting with a bunch of the guys in section P, row 9. You'll be able to tell us because we'll be wearing shoes, pants, shirts, and coats. Also, all of us have hair on our heads...