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bebop
or bop

Jazz characterized by harmonic complexity, convoluted melodic lines, and frequent shifting of rhythmic accent. In the mid-1940s, a group of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, rejected the conventions of swing to pioneer a self-consciously artistic extension of improvised jazz, which set new technical standards of velocity and harmonic subtlety. Two genres grew out of bebop in the 1950s: the delicate, dry, understated approach that came to be known as cool jazz, and the aggressive, blues-tinged earthiness of hard bop.

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Sterling D. Plumpp. Velvet BeBop Kente Cloth.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2005; Sterling D. Plumpp. Velvet BeBop Kente Cloth. Chicago: Third World P, 2003. 158 pp. $21.95. In the introductory note to Mexico...
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Fresh with bebop
Mar 25, 2007; New Straits Times 03-25-2007 Fresh with bebop Edition: New Sunday Times Section: Sunday People THIS Sunday, we talk about bebop....
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Bebop Jazz Piano: The Complete Guide with CD
Aug 01, 2003; Bebop Jazz Piano: The Complete Guide with CD, by John Valeria. Hal Leonard Corporation (7777 W Bluemound Rd., P.O. Box 13819,...
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Bebop guitar: surfing the changes with jazz's most exhilarating soloing style.(LESSONS: Style Council)
Jan 01, 2008; [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] BEBOP GUITAR HAS COME A LONG WAY IN THE LAST 60 YEARS OR SO. It began with a handful of often self-taught...
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Bebop: a case in point. (The African Matrix in Jazz Harmonic Practices.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2005; The literature on bebop is vast, from contemporaneous accounts such as that by Leonard Feather (1949) to Dizzy Gillespie's...
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