Word: bop
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...From Bop to Apfelstrudel. A listener tuning in on Voice broadcasts in recent weeks might have heard the following program items...
...Martin Block's Make-Believe Ballroom, on which Disc Jockey Block presents new records, plays request numbers. Typical recent request from "Alex," a listener in Switzerland: play some bop. Block's grave answer: "Alex, did you know that bop is on its way out? . . .Did you know that Dizzy Gillespie has given up bop?" Block then played one of Gillespie's post-bop numbers entitled You Stole My Wife-You Horse Thief...
...such standbys as September in the Rain and East of the Sun, sentimentalists got a straight chorus to hang their memories on before taking off on a jaunt through the weird intervals, lurching rhythms and monotonous riffs of the bop landscape. "The public," Shearing explained, "needs a handle to grab before they'll really catch on to bop...
Last week, after a successful trip to the West Coast, Shearing was at Manhattan's Strand Theatre for his first big-theater appearance. What jazz fans heard was a far cry from the feverishly disorganized, shrilly dissonant music that had made bop box-office poison in a lot of places. Shearing's music was sherbet-cold. Backed by a vibraphone, electric guitar, bass and drums, he played his piano as though he were tapping on tuned icicles...
Covered Hiccups. Shearing, who regards "cleanliness, the perfect internal balance of instruments," as the cardinal musical virtue, had turned bop shrieks into whispers, full-scale bop burps into carefully covered hiccups. There was a steady enough beat so that, in contrast to most bop, Shearing's music was almost danceable...