Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...referring to Illinois Jacquet, a saxophone player who is a popular exponent of the "wild" school. Although Jacquet has appeared at places like Symphony Hall, his music is neither classical nor modern, dixieland nor bop; it is loud...
Brain Wave (George Shearing Quintet; M-G-M). A good example of Pianist Shearing's bop style: jagged rhythms, colorful unisons, skittering melodies...
...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
Classical Drill. Says Tristano: "Our harmonies are strongly impressionistic. Melodically, I've tried to go beyond bop, which adheres largely to the given harmonic structure; we don't restrict ourselves to the chord when we play melody. Our rhythms are superimposed one on the other. Sometimes I play three different rhythms at once, while the other boys are each playing separate ones." The main idea: every man for himself...
...Family Theater (Wed. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). In a play called Rhapsody in Bop, Jimmy Durante and June Haver drive across country in a vintage Fierce-Arrow to seek fame & fortune in Holly wood...