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<p><p>when Bebop Was New, Writes Thomas Owens, Many Jazz Musicians And Most Of The Jazz Audience Heard It As Radical, Chaotic, Bewildering Music. For A Nation Swinging To The Smoothly Orchestrated Sounds Of The Big Bands, This Revolutionary Movement Of The 1940s Must Have Seemed Destined For A Short Life On The Musical Fringe. But Today, Owens Writes, Bebop Is Nothing Less Than The Lingua Franca Of Jazz, Serving As The Principal Musical Language Of Thousands Of Jazz Musicians. <br> In <b>bebop</b>, Owens Conducts Us On An Insightful, Loving Tour Through The Music, Players, And Recordings That Changed American Culture. Combining Vivid Portraits Of Bebop's Gigantic Personalities With Deft Musical Analysis, He Ranges From The Early Classics Of Modern Jazz (starting With The 1943 Onyx Club Performances Of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Don Byas, And George Wallington) Through The Central Role Of Charlie Parker, To An Instrument-by-instrument Look At The Key Players And Their Innovations. Illustrating His Discussion With Numerous Musical Excerpts, Owens Skillfully Demonstrates Why Bebop Was So Revolutionary, With Fascinating Glimpses Of The Tempestuous Jazz World&#58; Thel

Author

Thomas Owens

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford Univ Pr

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199853182

Subjects

Music, History, Science

Updated

2026-03-24