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Loudest Notes. As long ago as the '30s, Negro musicians resented the "theft'' of swing by white combos. According to Pianist Mary Lou Williams, the Bop era of the '40s began when Thelonious Monk decided: "We're going to create something they can't steal, because they can't play it." But the real problems of Crow Jim emerged in the '505 with the big-money success of West Coast jazz under the leadership of Brubeck, Mulligan, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne-all of them white. The new jazz put more emphasis...
They currently plan to run a five mile freestyle, a four mile Behemoth Bop, and a three mile Tusking Trot. Competing elephants will be lodged at nearby Disneyland...
...music called bop which arose in the mid-40's represented a radical enlargement of the tonal and rhythmic language of traditional jazz. Yet it became clear after a few years that bop had its own limitations, but it had developed certain specific conventions within which only the greatest improvisors could flourish. When these improvisors were not forthcoming, some, like Horace Silver, worked out partial solutions, but these were largely formal in nature...
...couple of years ago an outraged cry of questioning arose from certain corners, so that we know have a number of people bent on tearing down the structure which was bop. Some of these innovators are trying a wholesale application of the methods and/or attitudes of classical music; others have undertaken a revision of jazz by using the unique materials of jazz. It is becoming increasingly clear that only the latter will be successful. But what seems to be less clear is that in the meantime a number of extremely talented improvisers have come to maturity and that these...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle...