Bebop Quotes
The jazz era that made illegitimate sound essential.
These bebop quotes trace the genre from the swing and boogie-woogie eras into something genuinely new, with nods to Thelonious Monk and the Charlie Parker biopic 'Bird' that introduced a generation to the music. It's a fitting companion to our Bird quotes.
The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.
I grew up in Shanghai 'til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6 years old, the American radio station came to Shanghai, and I used to love bebop and jazz, but...
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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.
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Balance Quotes
Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started.
There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners that enjoyed music. You know, what happened - there was a lot of clubs that had...
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop...
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Beginning Quotes
Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was...
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.
I really enjoy listening to players on the cusp of swing into bebop like Charlie Shavers, Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. They balance immense facility on their instrument with rhythm, melody, and more complex harmonies of the time.
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One musician calls bebop legitimate precisely because it once wasn't, a reminder that every Beginning in jazz history looked reckless before it looked essential.
