Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon enjoying a magnificently costumed production of Otello at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, later, in Venice, met Composer Gian Francesco Malipiero and Conductor Angelo Ephrikian. In Florence, while sampling the music at hand, she insists that in a nightclub she discovered the "last resting place of bop." At opening night of the Maggio Musicale she saw her first performance of Verdi's Macbeth, was a bit disappointed in the production but not at all in the music. Before she went off to Switzerland, she caught a dress rehearsal and the premiere of Ildebrando Pizzetti...
Charley Christian, Jazz Immortal (Esoteric; 2 sides LP). A little of the disorganized noise from Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where bop came into its own, plus some agile string-picking by the late great Goodman guitarist...
...something a little unearthly about the way he rolls and pops his eyes, but the fact is he's one of the cleverest comedians around. His humor leans toward the macabre, a fact that is quite refreshing in itself. The young man's monologue as a marijuana-smoking bop musician is fast and witty...
Inquiring around, Hélian also found that "in general the American public isn't much interested in bop and progressive jazz . . . The famous Bop City on Broadway is closed up ... I met Stan Kenton and listened to him one whole night . . . Kenton has abandoned his own style* and is playing dance music to keep his orchestra together and alive ... He said, 'You're lucky [in France], You can play jazz. The public understands...
Dizzy Gillespie Plays (Discovery; 2 sides LP). Lost somewhere between the flatted fifths of basement bop and the swooping violins of mezzanine dinner music, "progressive" Dizzy gets his bearings now & then in a spot of good horn-playing...