Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founders o f be-bop in the 1940s. Now Dartmouth has asked Dizzy Gillespie to become a professor of music. For Gillespie, 55, and for a generation of jazz musicians, this recognition of the cultural importance of jazz was "a long time comin'." Added Dizzy, who is currently playing in Belgium: "A lot's changed since I began. A jazz musician can play with symphonies now. Jazz will be the classical music of the future...
...days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Finally he established himself as a soloist in Manhattan's plush East Side nighteries as well as clubs on the bop frontier of "The Street" (West 52nd Street...
Time: 1950. Scene: Birdland, the now defunct Manhattan cellar where the faithful gathered to hear the latest sounds of bebop. Backstage, the goings on were something less than harmonious, even for bop. The band was taking a vote. It seemed that the house pianist would not contribute to the group's heroin kitty. In fact, he was not interested in drugs at all. That would hardly do, and consequently Billy Taylor was voted out. "I don't know," recalls Taylor, "maybe they thought I was trying to give jazz a good name...
...articulate spokesman for jazz, Taylor is annoyed by the fact that jazz musicians tend to be perversely uncommunicative about their music-witness Parker's off-putting bop lingo, or Louis Armstrong's famous line: "If you got to ask what jazz is, you ain't got it." Says Taylor: "Every chance I get I try to set the record straight. I say, 'Look, I'm not apologizing for this music. I think it's something to be very proud of and I want to tell you about it.' " Beginning next week at Manhattan...
...ritual, deliberate sinning, of the afternoon cigarette and beer begins. Her ritual of reorienting herself to this place of odd noises and smells. She snaps the radio on. The jive soul station. The jive rap of a jive brother, and the ditty-bop love songs. It all soothes over her current terror with pastel washes of nostalgia. Except sometimes the bouncing bass of the dj, startling her with its abrasive masculinity. Making her remember. Discord...