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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 same can be said about Cage's bebop way around a role or movies about flaming bike-riding heroes. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences has honored the Web site for BeBop Apparel with The Webby Award for the "Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics Web Site of 2006. Charlie Parker and other pioneers of bebop famously commandeered the harmonic changes of popular tunes of their day, such as "How High the Moon," to create bop masterpieces ("Ornithology" in this case) that scarcely resembled their predecessors. |
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