Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
Quotes about bebop (12 Quotes)
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
That's a pretty tall order, ... I don't want to sound too grandiose or that I can represent jazz in its entirety. But as one of few remaining people from that period the heyday of bebop during the '40s and '50s, I want to represent myself and the kind of musicians from that period, so that people who are new to the music can say, 'These people were good they aren't just a bunch of old moldy figs.'
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Gary is awesome, he's amazing, ... The music in the movie alludes to jazz, bebop and pop but has an improvisational feel and he did an amazing job with just a few minutes.
Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started.
The adhesive pop quality of their songs - Shining Star, Can't Hide Love, Serpentine Fire, Fantasy and the disco classic Boogie Wonderland - was matched by superslick playing born out of their roots in fusion jazz. People used to call us a funk band, ... But it was a little more complicated than that. We were a fusion group made commercial. We had a lot of progressive chord changes and bebop horn lines and then hooks that a child could sing.
It could touch on many things like the way he changed music in different decades. From Bird to bebop to hip-hop and in between.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Jazz went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad.