Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mulligan's kind of sound is just about unique in the jazz field: his quartet uses neither piano nor guitar, does its work with trumpet, bass, drums and, of course, Mulligan's hoarse-voiced baritone sax. In comparison with the frantic extremes of bop, his jazz is rich and even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell...
Ella Fitzgerald opened last Monday at Storyville. She wrapped herself around a few standards, slid into some bop, joked a bit with the eager audience, and once again proved that they just don't come any better this side of the Good Old Days...
...operation in December put her throat out of commission. She was nervous at first, opening with two sitting ducks, Exactly Like You and Keep It a Secret. These first numbers she hit casually and with a pronounced beat, just warming up. A voice from the floor asked for some bop. Ella gave the nod to her piano man, Hank Jones, and the audience knew that this was still the old Fitzgerald...
From Barrelhouse to Bop (John Mehegan, piano; Perspective LP). An illustrated lecture on the history of jazz, rather self-consciously narrated but well played by Juilliard's professor of jazz piano. His performance manages some close approximations of such jazz stylists as Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Smith, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, George Shearing and others...
Like many a post-bop jazzman, Brubeck has no name for his style of playing. He just calls it "music...