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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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| 12) Young is followed by another up-and-coming bebopper, guitarist Barney Kessel. Zootsuit spit-and-polish, like beboppers of the forties and fifties on the sleeves of Hatch's record albums, Ward Wardell is leaning against a black hearse, his face cold and blank. |
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