Word: bopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Lola Wants (Sarah Vaughan; Mercury). Longtime top Bop Stylist Vaughan gone pop. The song, from Broadway's latest, Damn Yankees (see THEATER), is a fine, cynical tropical slink, and Sarah's husky tone suits it to the floor...
...much violence in a schoolroom in the course of two hours might be a little hard to swallow if the boys were not undeniably credible. But they are. Their bop-talk their clothes, their faces, will be waiting right outside the theatre's entrance when you leave...
...sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert & Sullivan." Once in a while, Liebman tingles but the viewers don't-they dialed away in droves during his 20-minute performance of the New York City Ballet's Filling Station. Since that disaster he has kept the dances...
...Jazz still "occupies a place entirely apart," but is given a complete chronicling from its African "origins through bop. In Grove IV, blues were kissed off with a See FOX TROT...
...colloquialisms evolve slowly. "Jag," "tops," "dude" stayed around for decades before they began to lose their freshness. But jazz lingo becomes obsolescent almost as fast as it reaches the public ear. A term of high approbation in the swing era was "out of this world," in the bop era it was "gone," and today it is "the greatest" or "the end." Similarly, a daring performance was "hot," then "cool," and now is "far out." These are the terms currently most often used by modern jazz addicts: ball, n. A good time; having a ball; enjoying oneself...