Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such standbys as September in the Rain and East of the Sun, sentimentalists got a straight chorus to hang their memories on before taking off on a jaunt through the weird intervals, lurching rhythms and monotonous riffs of the bop landscape. "The public," Shearing explained, "needs a handle to grab before they'll really catch on to bop...
Headache Factories. By the time blond, good-natured Shearing made the trip to the U.S., his friend Waller was dead and something called bop was mushrooming in 52nd Street basements. Shearing took the best job he could get: a union-scale, six-night-a-week grind in a 52nd Street club. Surrounded by bop addicts, Shearing's piano soon lost its English accent, picked up American "progressive" doubletalk. But conservative Shearing stopped short of the bop-for-bop's-sake which was turning some U.S. jazz joints into headache factories, instead concentrated on what is called "polite bop...
Last week, after a successful trip to the West Coast, Shearing was at Manhattan's Strand Theatre for his first big-theater appearance. What jazz fans heard was a far cry from the feverishly disorganized, shrilly dissonant music that had made bop box-office poison in a lot of places. Shearing's music was sherbet-cold. Backed by a vibraphone, electric guitar, bass and drums, he played his piano as though he were tapping on tuned icicles...
Covered Hiccups. Shearing, who regards "cleanliness, the perfect internal balance of instruments," as the cardinal musical virtue, had turned bop shrieks into whispers, full-scale bop burps into carefully covered hiccups. There was a steady enough beat so that, in contrast to most bop, Shearing's music was almost danceable...