History of Jazz: The emergence of Bebop

Jazz language change quite dramatically with the emergence of bebop in the early to mid 1940s. A handful of musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, pioneered the birth of bebop with a total effort to create something new and challenging. Realizing bebop as the music that requires a high instrumental skills and knowledge to sophisticated harmonies, jazz musician quickly gaining popularity. They write a zigzagging melodies and chord twisting with increasing complexity. Processing soloists scale tones are dissonant with their own improvisations, give something exotic to this music, sound without borders. A satisfaction with

syncopation resulted in a new accents. And the tempo moving faster and faster and faster.
Bebop is best played in small-group format; quartets and quintets proved ideal with economic and artistic reasons. Music was developed in the neighborhood jazz clubs urban areas, where the audience would prefer to come to listen rather than to solos danced to their favorite songs. In short, bebop musicians made jazz an art form that is not only intended to taste, but also intelligence.

Jazz stars appearing in the bebop era, among them the trumpeters Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, Johnny Griffin, Pepper Adams, Sonny Stitt and John Coltrane, and trombonist JJ Johnson.

In the era of the 1950s and 1960s, bebop had several mutations: hard-bop, West Coast, cool jazz and soul-jazz among others. Small-group format of bebop, that is one to three horns, piano, bass and drums, remains a standard jazz combo instrumentation to this day.

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