Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope for such big outfits as his own 16-piece band. Like other jazzmen of the late '30s, he was forced to cut back in the mid '40s, toured for four years with a small combo. "People were trying to decide whether they were going to like bop," he says. "Nobody was thinking of dancing. Big bands had no place to work...
...soon the musical extravagances of bop began to wear thin. Some of its innovations, e.g., more advanced harmonies and trickier rhythms, were absorbed into the jazz idiom as a whole. Big-band music began to appear more often on records. Basie collected a new full-size outfit 16 months ago, bounced back with a reputation as the swingingest band in the land...
Nowadays the Count's crew has most of its riffs written out for it. Nevertheless, old favorites such as One O'Clock Jump sound pretty much the way they used to. All he had to do to bring them up to post-bop fashion, says the Count, was "to put mink coats on the chords...
...tries to match the music to the patients. For the elderly and conservative, there are Gay Nineties tunes; for the young, bop. Except for deliberately sedative programs, strong rhythm is essential to get attention. After contact with the patient has been regained, the doctors can go to work with occupational and recreational therapy. Music itself is no cure, but it has helped so many patients that Dr. Witten says: "We don't talk in terms of hopeless cases; we don't believe there are any." Now 30 of the patients are so far recovered that they turned...
Crazy and Cool (Victor LP). An anthology of bop that contains minor frenzies by Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, the Metronome All Stars, and a strangely old-fashioned item by Gene Krupa's band. Worth the price of admission: 30 startling seconds by Charlie Ventura's virtuoso vocalists...