Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...live-wire jive set: hear Brubeck. At 31, Dave Brubeck of lone, Calif, is best known on the West Coast, but his piano playing has begun to get around. To his admirers, it is not only a brand-new style, it is the handsomest stuff since the birth of bop. In one of Manhattan's basement jazz dens last week, Brubeck and his quartet gave the East an earful...
...Businesswoman Jo Stafford sings anything, from ballads to bop, from hillbilly tunes to hymns. "I don't want to be typed," she says. "Once you get typed, you lose value...
...answer was short and to the point, "Bop," he said...
...Bop is a word I'd heard many times before. Unlike Dixieland addicts, though, those who prefer bop seem to hold themselves intellectually aloof from the emotionally throbbing outpourings of the earlier jazz cults. This bespectacled friend was no different from the rest in this respect. I discovered this five days later when he called me on the phone...
...friend began to explain, "Bop is cerebral...