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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. It is characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions—with rapid chord changes, changes of key, angular melodies and substitute chords—along with virtuosic improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, scales, and occasional references to the…

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Cultural origins
Mid-1940s, United States
Derivative forms
Avant-garde jazz · hard bop · post-bop · wabap
Stylistic origins
Swing · Kansas City jazz

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related to Breakout · 74
Bebop → Al Haig, Anthropology, Art Farmer, Barney Kessel, Before, Bluebird, By, Chano Pozo, Charles Mingus, Civil Rights Movement, Connie Kay, Cuban, Cubana Be, Cubana Bop, December, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie And, Dodo Marmarosa, Erroll Garner, Fats Navarro
related to Further reading · 50
Bebop → An Oral History, Berendt, Berkeley, Beyond, Black Music, Bop, Bredigkeit, California Press, Celebrating Bird, Charlie Parker, Co, CT, Dan Morgenstern, David, Deveaux, Frank, From Ragtime, Fusion, Gary, Giddins
related to Early recordings · 24
Bebop → American Federation, Billy Eckstine, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Eckstine, Esoteric ES, February, Hot Lips Page, It, Joe Guy, May, Minton's, Much, Musicians, Parker, Roy Eldridge, Some
related to Etymology · 24
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related to Influence · 22
Bebop → Birth, Boyd Raeburn, Brubeck, By, Charlie Ventura, Claude Thornhill, Cool, Dave Brubeck, Davis, Evans, George Russell, Gil Evans, Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis, Musicians, Progressive, Russell's, Stan Kenton, The, Those
related to Swing era influences · 21
Bebop → Ability, Basie, Buck Clayton, Charlie Parker, Count Basie Orchestra, He, His, Jo Jones, Kansas City, Lester Young, New York, One, Parker, Swing-era, The, The Kansas City, They, Victrola, When, Young
related to Beyond · 17
Bebop → Around, Art Blakey, As, By, Charlie Parker's, Clifford Brown, Development, During, Horace Silver, Instead, It, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, The
related to External links · 9
Bebop → Archived, BebopCharlie Parker, Chromaticism, Guitar, Jazz, Scales, Verve History, Vocabulary, Wayback MachineBebop
related to Musical style · 5
Bebop → Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Instead, Kenny Clarke, The
Derivative forms · 4
Bebop → Avant-garde jazz, hard bop, post-bop, wabap

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music parker new jazz musicians swing would style harmonic gillespie charlie bop used bass blues early york piano label 1945

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BebopCultural originsMid-1940s, United States1.00infobox
BebopDerivative formsAvant-garde jazz1.00infobox
BebopDerivative formshard bop1.00infobox
BebopDerivative formspost-bop1.00infobox
BebopDerivative formswabap1.00infobox
BebopStylistic originsSwing1.00infobox
BebopStylistic originsKansas City jazz1.00infobox
tritone substitutionsinstance ofThat opened up creative possibilities for harmonic improvisation0.80text
use of diminished scale based improvised lines that could resolve to the key center in numerousinstance ofThat opened up creative possibilities for harmonic improvisation0.80text
surprising ways.Bebop musicians also employed several harmonic devices not typical of previous jazzinstance ofThat opened up creative possibilities for harmonic improvisation0.80text
the flat ninthinstance ofThese substitutions often emphasized certain dissonant intervals0.80text
sharp ninth or the sharp eleventh/tritoneinstance ofThese substitutions often emphasized certain dissonant intervals0.80text

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