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Description of Bop

When people today hear the word jazz, the music that most often springs to mind is the small combo-based style known as Bop. Built on a rhythmic foundation of walking bass and a steady cymbal pulse, Bop music is geared toward virtuosic and often extended soloing over a series of predetermined chord changes. In the early 1940s, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie revolutionized jazz with their stripped-down aesthetic, speeded-up tempos, and radical harmonic innovations, a style that critics dubbed "Bebop" after a classic tune of the same name. By the mid-'50s, the music had evolved into the tougher sounds of Hard Bop outfits such as Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, who incorporated elements of Gospel and blues into slightly slower tempos. Post Bop groups, such as the Bill Evans Trio and mid-'60s Miles Davis Quintet, reshaped the basic elements of Bebop and Hard Bop, at times incorporating ideas associated with Avant-Garde Jazz.

Bop Key Tracks

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Play/Add	Track	Artist
	1. A Night In Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie
	2. Cantaloupe Island	Herbie Hancock
	3. Love Walked In	Sonny Clark
	4. Summer Night	Miles Davis
	5. Say It (Over And Over Again)	John Coltrane
	6. In Walked Bud	Thelonious Monk
	7. When Lights Are Low	Sarah Vaughan
	8. Willow Weep For Me	Dexter Gordon
	9. Lullaby Of The Leaves	Tal Farlow
	10. There's A Small Hotel	Chet Baker
	11. E.T.A.	Art Blakey
	12. Opus De Funk	Horace Silver
	13. Search For Peace	McCoy Tyner
	14. I Got A Right To Sing The Blues	Wynton Marsalis
	15. Lush Life	Stan Getz
	16. If You Could See Me Now	Art Farmer

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Bop Key Artists

Art Blakey

This hard-hitting drummer
was justly renowned for
nurturing young talent (and
future stars) for decades.
One of the premier Hard...

Art Farmer

Farmer's richly lyrical
trumpet and flugelhorn
playing was perfect for Cool
Jazz, Swing, and Bop.
Besides leading his own g...

Billy Taylor

Sometimes overlooked for
his snazzy piano playing,
Taylor has helped celebrate
jazz on CBS' "Sunday
Morning." Besides his old...

Charlie Haden

This amazingly gifted jazz
bassist helped spearhead
avant garde free jazz and
now carries the torch for
mainstream bop.

Charlie Parker

Alto saxophone giant
Charlie Parker can rightfully
be considered the father of
modern jazz. Born in Kansas
City, Kansas, and raised in...

Clifford Brown

Though he died tragically
young (in a car crash),
Brownie's delectable horn
style remains startlingly
fresh.

Dexter Gordon

Gordon combined the best
of Bop, Cool and swing into
his own peerless tenor sax
style. Like Frank Sinatra and
Peggy Lee, Dexter Gordo...

Dizzy Gillespie

This beloved musical
dynamo helped invent and
disseminate Bebop and
Afro-Cuban Jazz. An
international ambassador,...

Joe Henderson

This tenor sax virtuoso
remained a critical favorite
for decades before he
crossed over to major jazz
stardom in the 1990s. Hen...

John Coltrane

A gentle revolutionary,
Coltrane's alternately
blistering & blissful sax still
astounds. Coltrane became
a star sideman playing wit...

McCoy Tyner

One of the jazz world's
pre-eminent pianists, Tyner
was part of Coltrane's
classic quartet and has a
huge catalog of work.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis helped define
five decades of jazz and
became a superstar in the
process. Davis dropped out
of Juilliard to play jazz. Mi...

Oscar Peterson

Canada's greatest gift to
jazz, Peterson's piano
playing is so deep that he's
become an international
ambassador of music.

Sonny Rollins

A true saxophone colossus,
Rollins is regarded as one of
the finest jazz musicians in
history. Though his peers
thought him a musical gen...

Thelonious Monk

Top-shelf tunesmith,
uniquely expressive pianist,
hat connoisseur, and all
around eccentric, Monk's
music still marvels. Monk's...

Wes Montgomery

Jazz guitarist Montgomery's
rich, rounded tones and
stunning solos are still
studied and copied.
Montgomery's early recor...

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