Word: bop
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...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
...Family Theater (Wed. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). In a play called Rhapsody in Bop, Jimmy Durante and June Haver drive across country in a vintage Fierce-Arrow to seek fame & fortune in Holly wood...
...soon enjoying a magnificently costumed production of Otello at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, later, in Venice, met Composer Gian Francesco Malipiero and Conductor Angelo Ephrikian. In Florence, while sampling the music at hand, she insists that in a nightclub she discovered the "last resting place of bop." At opening night of the Maggio Musicale she saw her first performance of Verdi's Macbeth, was a bit disappointed in the production but not at all in the music. Before she went off to Switzerland, she caught a dress rehearsal and the premiere of Ildebrando Pizzetti...
Charley Christian, Jazz Immortal (Esoteric; 2 sides LP). A little of the disorganized noise from Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where bop came into its own, plus some agile string-picking by the late great Goodman guitarist...
...something a little unearthly about the way he rolls and pops his eyes, but the fact is he's one of the cleverest comedians around. His humor leans toward the macabre, a fact that is quite refreshing in itself. The young man's monologue as a marijuana-smoking bop musician is fast and witty...