Word: bop
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George Shearing and His Quintet (M-G-M). Blind British Pianist Shearing and his group wrap up eight to prove "that bop is still very much alive." Unproved...
Bandless and jobless, Mohammedanized Trumpet Player Dizzy Gillespie, high priest of polyphonic jazz, was forced to admit to Down Beat that bop was done for: "Everybody wants you to play what they call dance music. What they mean is that ticky-ticky-tick stuff...
...Brahms, Bop...
...George Lasker of [Boston's] WBMS lays the blame for the abandonment of Brahms for bop squarely at the feet of the American advertiser [TIME, May 8]. But he errs in stating that radio commercials offend the esthetic tastes of the listening audience. It is not the esthetic tastes that are insulted, but rather the normal, ordinary, human intelligence...
Boston's classical-music station WBMS this week decided to abandon Brahms for bop. After three years' experience, disillusioned Vice President George Lasker concluded that "all of the classical-music enthusiasts in Boston would just about fill the Boston Garden [capacity...