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Bebop History

Bebop emerged in the 1940s led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. It moved jazz away from its dance roots into a more virtuosic "art music" style. Parker was known as "Bird" and played with musicians like Thelonious Monk. He was prolific at writing contrafacts. Gillespie demonstrated how jazz was moving in a new direction after the 1935 recording ban. He took jazz playing to a new level through late night jam sessions in New York clubs. "Shaw 'Nuff" exemplifies bebop with its fast, complex melodies and solos by Parker and Gillespie using running quavers and syncopation.

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Bebop History

Bebop emerged in the 1940s led by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. It moved jazz away from its dance roots into a more virtuosic "art music" style. Parker was known as "Bird" and played with musicians like Thelonious Monk. He was prolific at writing contrafacts. Gillespie demonstrated how jazz was moving in a new direction after the 1935 recording ban. He took jazz playing to a new level through late night jam sessions in New York clubs. "Shaw 'Nuff" exemplifies bebop with its fast, complex melodies and solos by Parker and Gillespie using running quavers and syncopation.

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CHARLIE PARKER,

DIZZY GILLESPIE
AND BEBOP
DAMON OLIVER
BEN EDWARDS
PAUL LAMSTAES

BEBOP
As a period of time, Bebop ran
from around 1940-1955 with both
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie
Parker at its head.
It was a new style of jazz that
moved away from its dance
routes, taking it out of the
mainstream and into a more art
music form, where virtuosic
playing is a key element.

CHARLIE PARKER
- Known as the Bird for his fluent
and exciting playing.
- He played with many other fantastic
players such as Thelonius Monk in
small Quintet and Quartet settings.
- He was a prolific writer of
Contrafacts (new melodies written
over pre-existing chord changes)
meaning that other musicians
could play new tunes without
necessarily needing the sheets.

JOHN DIZZY GILLESPIE


- Following the American ban on recording until 1935, Dizzy entered
the studio and demonstrated how jazz was now moving in another
direction to its previously popular-music orientation.
- He began to take playing
jazz to an entirely new level.
- After hours Jam Sessions
in various New York Jazz
clubs had led to this exciting
new genre of music which,
when finally recorded, took
the jazz world by storm.

THE PLAYING
Shaw Nuff
- Based on the Rhythm Changes from Gershwins I Got Rhythm, Parker
and Gillespie play a particularly fast and complex melodic line (something
characteristic of bebop) which is followed by solos.
- Parkers solo is extremely dense with consistent quaver rhythms which
are often syncopated, something that became a cornerstone of bebop
language. The speed of his playing always sounds relaxed and
comfortable, never feeling as though there is a loss of pace.
- Dizzys entrance is bold and completely virtuosic, playing at the upper
limits of the trumpets range. Like Parker, directly after his bold entrance,
Gillespie plays running phrases of quavers, so to that extent the two are
similar.
- However; during the middle section of the chord sequence it can be
noted Parker follows continuous quaver chromatic arpeggio-type
patterns whereas Dizzy focuses slightly more on syncopation and rhythm
to create more interest in his playing

PHRASING AND STYLE


Dizzy Atmosphere
Charlie Parkers
opening 8 bars
(2min50secs-in)

Dizzy Atmosphere
(live recording)
One of Dizzy
Gillespies famous
licks (2min36secs-in)

(Dizzy1min36secs-in)

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