Jazz Exam #3
Jazz Notes Exam #3
Chapter 9- The Bebop Revolution
• Big Band music was on the decline at the end of WWII.
• It was difficult to staff a 17 member big band
• Due to the war and the economy Dance Halls began to close
• A growing artistic unrest developed among some artists rejecting the commercial and repetitive big band arrangements
• Bebop developed as a reaction to the swing era
Bepop
• Bebop, or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody.
• IT was developed in the early and mid 1940s. It first surfaced in musicians as a reaction to the swing era some time during the first two years of the Second World War.
• The 1939 recording of “Body and Soul” by Coleman Hawkins is an important antecedent of bebop. Hawkins willingness to stray-even briefly-from the ordinary resolution of musical themes and his playful jumps to double-time signaled a departure from existing jazz.
• Hawkins became an inspiration to a younger generation of jazz musicians, most notably Charlie Parker, in Kansas City.
• Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era.
• It seemed jarringly different to the ears of the public, who were used to the bouncy, organized, danceable tunes of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller during the swing era.
• Instead, bebop appeared to sound racing, nervous, and often fragmented. But to jazz musicians and jazz music lovers, bebop was an exciting and beautiful revolution in the art of jazz.
• The classic bebop combo consisted of saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, and piano. This was the format used (and popularized) by both Charlie Parker (alto sax) and Dizzy Gilepsie (trumpet) in their 1940s groups and recordings, sometimes augmented by an extra saxophonist or guitar (electric or acoustic), occasionally adding other horns (often a trombone), or other strings (usually fiddle or violin) or dropping an
Chapter 9- The Bebop Revolution
• Big Band music was on the decline at the end of WWII.
• It was difficult to staff a 17 member big band
• Due to the war and the economy Dance Halls began to close
• A growing artistic unrest developed among some artists rejecting the commercial and repetitive big band arrangements
• Bebop developed as a reaction to the swing era
Bepop
• Bebop, or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody.
• IT was developed in the early and mid 1940s. It first surfaced in musicians as a reaction to the swing era some time during the first two years of the Second World War.
• The 1939 recording of “Body and Soul” by Coleman Hawkins is an important antecedent of bebop. Hawkins willingness to stray-even briefly-from the ordinary resolution of musical themes and his playful jumps to double-time signaled a departure from existing jazz.
• Hawkins became an inspiration to a younger generation of jazz musicians, most notably Charlie Parker, in Kansas City.
• Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era.
• It seemed jarringly different to the ears of the public, who were used to the bouncy, organized, danceable tunes of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller during the swing era.
• Instead, bebop appeared to sound racing, nervous, and often fragmented. But to jazz musicians and jazz music lovers, bebop was an exciting and beautiful revolution in the art of jazz.
• The classic bebop combo consisted of saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, and piano. This was the format used (and popularized) by both Charlie Parker (alto sax) and Dizzy Gilepsie (trumpet) in their 1940s groups and recordings, sometimes augmented by an extra saxophonist or guitar (electric or acoustic), occasionally adding other horns (often a trombone), or other strings (usually fiddle or violin) or dropping an