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From Barrelhouse to Bop (John Mehegan, piano; Perspective LP). An illustrated lecture on the history of jazz, rather self-consciously narrated but well played by Juilliard's professor of jazz piano. His performance manages some close approximations of such jazz stylists as Jelly Roll Morton, Pinetop Smith, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, George Shearing and others...
...live-wire jive set: hear Brubeck. At 31, Dave Brubeck of lone, Calif, is best known on the West Coast, but his piano playing has begun to get around. To his admirers, it is not only a brand-new style, it is the handsomest stuff since the birth of bop. In one of Manhattan's basement jazz dens last week, Brubeck and his quartet gave the East an earful...
Like many a post-bop jazzman, Brubeck has no name for his style of playing. He just calls it "music...
...Businesswoman Jo Stafford sings anything, from ballads to bop, from hillbilly tunes to hymns. "I don't want to be typed," she says. "Once you get typed, you lose value...
...friend began to explain, "Bop is cerebral...