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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 I didn't know where it came from.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
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Oh yeah, that was the thing to do at that time. This was before the new wave of bebop started.
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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 bebop music or different forms of music. It was great for musicians.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 or whatever it is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
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We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
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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 really coming to the fore.
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- Nov 07, 2020