Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THAT IS THE QUESTION: TO BE OR not . . . to bop. The problem, first stated by an English playwright of some note, was rephrased and repunctuated by John Birks Gillespie in 1979 and used as the title of a free-swinging memoir. To Be or Not . . . to Bop: hip, funny, silly, fractured, rhythmic -- each word is like a snap of the fingers -- pointed, pertinent, dizzy. Very Dizzy...
Axis. 13 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2437. Bop Harvey, Agent 13, Authority on Thursday, Oct. 22. DJ Debo downstairs and DJ David James upstairs on Friday...
...Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" is definitely the weak link on this album because O'Connor's vocals get lost in the screaming trumpets of Doug Katsaros' neo-bop arrangement...
Although both rely on improvisation and solos, jazz and rap have never found much common ground. The great jazz trumpeter MILES DAVIS was in a recording studio trying to remedy this at the time he died last September. But the unfinished album, Doo-Bop, recorded with the rapper EASY MO BEE, merely skims the rich possibilities of a synthesis. Mo Bee and Davis perform together on just three of the record's nine cuts. Even then, they do not unite. While Mo Bee's rapping is nimble and sharp, and Davis' muted horn hot and restless, the , numbers have...
Most intriguingly, the album shows Shaw crossing the shadow line that divided swing from bop and the other modernist idioms that took over after 1950. In the hands of most other players, including Shaw's great rival Goodman, the clarinet did not make this transition -- at least not without sacrificing its warmth and lyricism -- which is why it soon was eclipsed by the saxophone as a primary jazz voice. But here Shaw effortlessly absorbs some of bop's angular chromaticism, and his out-of-rhythm codas, all fluttery murmurings or boiling surges of notes, seem to anticipate the free-form...