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noun - an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
verb - dance the bebop
Bop.
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| Jazzy sound |
| Some jazz |
| Dizzy Gillespie's genre |
| Jazz style |
| Jazz genre |
| Charlie Parker's music |
| Swing development |
| Thelonious Monk's music |
| Fast-tempoed jazz |
| Gillespie's style |
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| Max Roach's drumming helped create this style around 1940 |
| Charlie Parker took the instrument to new heights playing this style of jazz he helped invent |
| Dizzy Gillespie, Parker & others developed this new style of jazz at Minton's Playhouse, a NYC nightclub |
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| Music Bop. |
| a type of jazz originating in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony and rhythms. It is associated particularly with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie. |
| A type of jazz originating in the 1940s and characterized by complex harmony and rhythms. It is associated particularly with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie. |
| an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) |
| dance the bebop |
| a type of jazz music |
| bop |
| Bebop description |
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Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody. * Bebop developed as the younger generation of jazz musicians expanded the creative possibilities of jazz beyond the popular, dance-oriented swing style with a new "musician's music" that was not as danceable and demanded close listening. As bebop was not intended for dancing, it enabled the musicians to play at faster tempos. Bebop musicians explored advanced harmonies, complex syncopation, altered chords, extended chords, chord substitutions, asymmetrical phrasing, and intricate melodies. Bebop groups used rhythm sections in a way that expanded their role. Whereas the key ensemble of the swing era was the big band of up |
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