Word: bopping
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...Some performers are criticized as being "too hip for the room" or "playing to the band." Lenny was plenty hip, maybe excessively so; his performances were crash courses in bop argot and Yiddish. And he did love cracking up the musicians, since he thought of himself as their kinsman: an improv artist with words. But he gained a large following, even though his material, even in his early prime, was deemed too controversial for TV. (Remember, there were only three networks and some independent stations. And this was the 50s. Only Steve Allen, an early and loyal fan, booked Lenny...
...drum-centric “Moby Dick,” was somewhat bizarre, as Statham seemed so involved when on stage. Scofield himself was inventive as always; his guitar lines were mind-bendingly complicated at times, syncopated and fluid at others. Still, he never really abandons the post-bop vocabulary of his previous album, “EnRoute.” While his jazz-inflected playing is interesting in its own way, there is something removed and academic about his endless modal cycles. The style becomes a bit tiresome about halfway through his sets. One can only marvel...
...when Hanson released their sophomore effort, “This Time Around,” the band acknowledged that their sound was evolving. The edgier music signaled a welcome departure from the band loved by magazines such as BOP and TEEN Beat for so long...
Guitarist John Scofield is no stranger to the Cambridge jazz haven Regattabar, but when he returns to the Charles Hotel’s fabled lounge for a two-night stand, he will abandon his usual frantic and funky post-bop for the deep soul of Ray Charles’ songbook...
There’s nothing wrong with the video, and, in fact, it’s rather pretty when one is tired enough, but mustachioed (or bop-up mulletted) women and dreamy bed chamber twists have to be timed just right...right...