Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...
These orgies, held during each reading period, were begun in 1940. So far classical music from pre-Bach to modern has been featured, but starting Friday, bop, jazz, hillbilly, and opera take the spotlight...
...noise, regular jazz and bop houses are supplemented tonight by weekly Second Avenue jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St., and the Central Plaza, 6th; last week and fairly regularly Bill Davison, Rex Stewart, George Wettling, Wellman Braud, and Joe Sullivan graced the former, while Hot Lips Page, Willie the Lion Smith, Big Chief Moore, and Benny Morion livened up the latter...
George Shearing and His Quintet (M-G-M). Blind British Pianist Shearing and his group wrap up eight to prove "that bop is still very much alive." Unproved...
Bandless and jobless, Mohammedanized Trumpet Player Dizzy Gillespie, high priest of polyphonic jazz, was forced to admit to Down Beat that bop was done for: "Everybody wants you to play what they call dance music. What they mean is that ticky-ticky-tick stuff...