Article: The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History.

Article: Fresh with bebop
New Straits Times;  March 25, 2007 ;     611 words ... ... structure in comparison to swing, bebop music steered clear of the big ... together. At the heart of all bebop musicians was an innate desire ... improvisational elements from the swing era, young musicians such as Dizzy ... musical direction. Ironically, bebop owed its origins to darker roots ...

Article: Bebop guitar: surfing the changes with jazz's most ...
Guitar Player;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... scene where guitarists use bebop phraseology as a means of ... jazz guitarists learning bebop sax solos to classical guitarists ... SWING TO BOP The young bebop pioneers drew upon the material of great big band swing-era soloists--such as tenor ...

Article: The Birth of Bebop: A Social Musical History.(Brief ...
The Antioch Review;  September 22, 1998 ;     662 words ... ... to the emergence of bebop from the earlier music of the Swing Era. As DeVeaux notes ... traditional telling of bebop might begin: with ... evidence suggesting that bebop contains both novel ... Gunther Schuller's The Swing Era and by Paul Berliner ...

Article: Bebop stars who tore up the trad jazz rule book
The Scotsman;  October 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ...BEBOP seemed to many listeners ... wholesome image of the swing era, and cloaked the music ... and dramatic. The bebop masters re-wrote ... mass popularity in the swing era. The big bands packed ... Britain. The advent of bebop and the modern jazz ...

Article: MCPHERSON CREATES A FRESH BLAST OF BEBOP FOR EARSHOT JAZZ ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... sigh of near fatalism, ``Bebop is the music of the future ... critical juncture after the swing era and before the avant-garde ... nothing new on their minds, bebop still can be some of the most ... two very different sides of bebop. The headliner was Charles ...

Article: Guest soloists channel fathers of bebop.
Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  February 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Feb. 17--Sixty years after bebop's birth, the Columbus Jazz ... revolution that changed jazz forever. Bebop indeed reinvented jazz, even ... early figures were stars of the swing era. In a nutshell, bebop was intended for listening, not ...

Article: Eclectic jazz clarinetist bridged swing, bebop.(Local)
The Virginian Pilot;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop, died Wednesday at his home ... considered one of the leading bebop clarinetists. The two men ... major clarinetists to take on bebop, a style thought to be incompatible ...