Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving him, and a year later he had another standout herd. It was a disastrous venture because it was dedicated to the dying bop style and cost him a cool $175,000 before he could break it up. Three years ago, unhappy fronting small combos with his clarinet and sax, Woody Herman was rounding up his Third Herd, by last week had groomed it to top form...
...This band swings more than anything since the bop era began," he says without false modesty. It took hard work to get it that way, and Woody has trouble putting his finger on just what made the difference between the good band it was and the exciting one it became. "It's like one day you get up and it's not the greatest, and the next day you can whip the world...
Dizzie Gillespie with Strings (Clef LP). Bop Trumpeter Gillespie, backed by the Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra, plays with appealing simplicity and delivers some startling riffs, but is given a poor recording...
Once upon a time, the jazzman's capital was New Orleans; later came Chicago and Manhattan's 52nd Street. Today, the liveliest center of developing jazz is California, where a cluster of youngsters, still mostly in their 20s, are refining the frenzies of bop into something cooler, calmer and more coherent...
Baker and his California colleagues revere such "early moderns" as Negro Bop-sters Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie ("Yard-bird") Parker and Thelonius Monk. But they are far more interested in their own ideas than in merely imitating onetime models. In this, jazz historians may decide, the California youngsters are repeating the role of the white Northern musicians who 30 years ago picked up the original New Orleans variety and turned it into something called Dixieland...