Word: bopping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After more than five years, local Mexican restaurant Be Bop Burrito has closed its doors to customers and given up its Garage location to the Boston Chowda Company, which plans to open a branch in the space on September...
...Burton, who is also executive vice president of Boston's Berklee College of Music, began his performance with a 10-minute improvisation to a Chick Corea composition honoring the be-bop style of 1950s pianist Bud Powell. Burton was accompanied by a Yamaha piano recording of Makuto Ozone, a Berklee graduate and frequent collaborator of Burton's now living in Japan...
...Matt Gordy Quintet, a progressive,post-bop jazz group, returns to play at theCharles Hotel's Regatta Bar at 8:30 p.m. Call(617) 876-7777 to order tickets...
...shame to realize that relatively few student bands exist on campus compared to the yawn-inspiring plethora of a capella groups and orchestras. For every 500 chartreuse posters proclaiming another bee-bop doo-wop smile-and-tear fest, there may be at most one piece of paper trumpeting the latest experimentalist musical incarnation or student rock group. In general, Harvard students are content performing and interpreting compositions from oldies pop icons and classical composers, and fellow students are happy to shell out financial support to perpetuate this comfortable culture. But the number of students interested in creating music for collegiate...
...clear station. The century starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain's a-gonna fall," Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder. It might be better to forget the '80s--the posturing heavy-metal bands, Debbie Gibson, "Let's get physical--physical," the guy with the haircut in Flock of Seagulls...