Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guys were really jazzed up for the meet," McCurdy added. It remains to be seen whether the squad can be-bop its way by a talented Dartmouth team on Tuesday...
...Saturday mornings with a junior high school friend and bop into Harvard. The Square was a lot cooler then, more wierd people to stare at, more radical literature to pick up etc.-- maybe it's just that everything's a lot cooler in the eighth grade. After making the rounds we'd head down Boylston St. to Carey Cage. By 11 a.m. there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy...
...sung mostly in clubs, most of them in New Jersey. She built up a reputation as a "musicianly" and controlled singer, but, except for tour dates with Miles Davis in '59 and with Sonny Rollins in '64, has enjoyed only limited exposure. Thirty years ago she was "Betty Be-Bop" Carter. If your memory doesn't go back that far, you can see her at the Jazz Workshop through...
Avant-garde jazz grew out of a reaction to the increasing slickness of jazz in its hard bop and cool phases in the late '50s. Musicians who had grown up with the bop revolution could rattle off chordal solos with such facility that there were no longer any challenges left. To restore the music's freshness, another revolution was necessary, but like most revolutions, it brought changes for which few were prepared. Musicians such as Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman sought to move outside the boundaries of traditional musical structure, to ignore the rules of harmony and tonality. Such...
When the Modern Jazz Quartet was formed in 1952, it was a musical revelation. Bop, with its honks and squawks and dissonances, was at the height of its popularity. Dizzy Gillespie was king...