Word: bop
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...answer was short and to the point, "Bop," he said...
...Bop is a word I'd heard many times before. Unlike Dixieland addicts, though, those who prefer bop seem to hold themselves intellectually aloof from the emotionally throbbing outpourings of the earlier jazz cults. This bespectacled friend was no different from the rest in this respect. I discovered this five days later when he called me on the phone...
...referring to Illinois Jacquet, a saxophone player who is a popular exponent of the "wild" school. Although Jacquet has appeared at places like Symphony Hall, his music is neither classical nor modern, dixieland nor bop; it is loud...
Brain Wave (George Shearing Quintet; M-G-M). A good example of Pianist Shearing's bop style: jagged rhythms, colorful unisons, skittering melodies...
Classical Drill. Says Tristano: "Our harmonies are strongly impressionistic. Melodically, I've tried to go beyond bop, which adheres largely to the given harmonic structure; we don't restrict ourselves to the chord when we play melody. Our rhythms are superimposed one on the other. Sometimes I play three different rhythms at once, while the other boys are each playing separate ones." The main idea: every man for himself...