Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated, impossible to play for many of the older musicians—but it soon became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players—Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach—but also studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop’s pervasive influence throughout American culture. Revised with an updated discography—and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through the end of the twentieth century—The Masters of Bebop is the essential listener’s handbook.
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"Gitler is an admirable scholar and a knowledgeable reporter [of] the bop era." -- New York Times Book Review
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Ira Gitler is a writer, critic, and educator; he is also the coauthor of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. He lives in New York City.
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Bebop "...reigns as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who was there can. In The Masters of Bebop, Gitler traces the advent of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading players--Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach--but also studies the style and music of the first disciples..." this text comes straight from the "product discription" and i couldnt praise Gitlers' book any better. if you dig the sound, then dig up a copy of this invaluble history and "hear" it all.
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ALTHOUGH A MAN and his music are inseparable, often in writing about Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, more attention is given to the wild, lurid aspects of his life than to his music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tenor men, tenor man, own quartet, own trio, trumpet section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Blue Note, Bud Powell, Fifty-second Street, Miles Davis, Down Beat, Lester Young, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Los Angeles, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Leonard Feather, Woody Herman, Oscar Pettiford, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Tadd Dameron, Sonny Stitt, Three Deuces, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, United States New!
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ALTHOUGH A MAN and his music are inseparable, often in writing about Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, more attention is given to the wild, lurid aspects of his life than to his music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tenor men, tenor man, own quartet, own trio, trumpet section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Blue Note, Bud Powell, Fifty-second Street, Miles Davis, Down Beat, Lester Young, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Los Angeles, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Leonard Feather, Woody Herman, Oscar Pettiford, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Tadd Dameron, Sonny Stitt, Three Deuces, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, United States New!
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- Book of Jazz by Leonard Feather on page 135, page 201, and Back Matter
- Encyclopaedia of Jazz: v. 1 by Leonard G. Feather on page 172, and Back Matter
- Body and Soul by J. P. Smith on page 18
- Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It by Nat Shapiro in Back Matter
- Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Ira Gitler in Back Cover
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