Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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...
...that is not new in the writing game-although his name for it is: he goes on a brief, illicit sexual romp he calls a fête. His worldly-wise wife Léone ("I have made love with many men") indulges his impulses. When Lucie, who adores bop records and Duc's novels, arrives at the novelist's villa outside Paris, Due gets set for a fête. Since all French triangles are parallelograms, Lucie brings her husband Jean-Marc, a poet. The couples talk shop: How many past lovers and mistresses has each...
...good could come out of such an Apalachin Jr. sort of meeting between the young toughs and the two ex-cons. But the session had the full backing of New York City's police. For "Big Jim" Vaus and "Pete'' Thomas were trying to prevent a "bop," or gang fight, that might have ended in another bloody teenage killing on East Harlem's dark streets...
...Doubters. As the moving spirits of a remarkably successful East Harlem rehabilitation mission named Youth De velopment Inc., Vaus and Thomas are two of the most expert bop-busters in the business. They, along with the staff of the city Youth Board, are the reason why 1960 has seen only ten teenage gang killings, compared with 23 a year ago. Y.D.I. is essentially Vaus's baby. An experienced crook, Jim Vaus in 1949 got religion after meeting Billy Graham, turned evangelist himself, wrote a moderately successful book titled Why I Quit Syndicated Crime. His new vocation took...