Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roll. Said Veteran Librettist Harbach, 83: "The greatest melodies of the past would never have had a chance to reach the public if they were written now instead of then. Would Smoke Gets in Your Eyes be allowed by broadcasters to be heard instead of Be-Bop-a-Lula? Could Indian Love Call penetrate the air waves which are flooded with Houn...
When the younger jazzmen did away with Dixieland and big-band swing and dove into the cool depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known as an ill woodwind that nobody blows good, this relatively new instrument suddenly struck the U.S. mass ear in the 1920s in the hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz...
Poised for Bop. Sime had a lot to learn. But he was willing. He ran up and down the deep rows of seats in Duke stadium to build up his stamina and improve his balance. "Balance is everything," he says-and when he is going well, he is so perfectly poised that he seems to float over the cinders. He is also incredibly relaxed during a meet, a quality he attributes to his dancing to bebop music whenever he can. "A good bop keeps you nice and loose. If I go out and bop, I feel O.K. the next...
...American theater, painting, literature to the rest of the world. Late, but far from least, in the parade are U.S. musicians. A random look at the travel notes last week showed U.S. jazz in London, a fine U.S. symphony in Latin America, a top U.S. violinist in Russia, U.S. "bop" in the Middle East...
...Istanbul, Top Bop Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie and his 16-piece band took crowds of Turks through a rapid history of jazz, then fed them a solid portion in the progressive style that left the audiences yelling with excitement. It was stop No. 9 in the troupe's seven-country tour as the State Department's first official jazz ambassadors, taking in many places that had never heard live American jazz, and some that had not even heard about...