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bebopHot jazz style with complicated melody lines improvised against often dissonant harmonies and complex rhythms. It was developed in New York in the 1940s and 1950s by Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and other black musicians reacting against swing music. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The poems move easily from swing ("Oh, Miss Kitty, / she's as round as she is tall") to be-bop ("A bippety-bop snake / can't bite my style / But a bippety-bop chick / can stay awhile") to cool ("What can I add with my horn? Be-Bop / the art of breaking and / Entering wounds. Get Joe Lovano talking about his mentors, and the goateed, heavyset tenor saxophonist will rattle off a formidable list of big band, be-bop and free-jazz legends. |
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