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**BEBOP & HARDBOP JAZZ**

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Founded: Feb 26, 2005 7:44 PM
Location: Vancouver & the world!!!
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This group is for those who love BEBOP and HARDBOP JAZZ! This is all about the music, the paintings and artwork it has inspired, the album cover art, the legends behind the styles creation and whatever else you feel may fit within the perameters of BEBOP and HARDBOP JAZZ!





BEBOP JAZZ





Bebop jazz began in the 1940s, led by such distinctive stylists as the saxophonist Charlie Parker (known as "Yardbird" or "Bird") and Dizzy Gillespie. This marked a major shift of jazz as pop music for dancing to a high-art, less-accessible, cerebral "musician's music." Bop valued complex improvisations based on chord progressions rather than melody. Hard bop was a move away from cool jazz, an attempt to make bop more appealing to audiences by incorporating influences from soul music, gospel music, and the blues. Later, bebop and hard bop musicians, such as trumpeter Miles Davis, made more stylistic advances with modal jazz, where the harmonic structure of pieces was much more free than previously and frequently only implied by skeletal piano chords and bass parts. The instrumentalists then would improvise around a given mode of the scale. Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which centred on the Hammond organ.

HARD BOP JAZZ ~ 1954~60





The term "hard"means a performance that is more driving and less relaxed than cool jazz.The phrase bop regression implies a return to the elements of the bop style. The more famous of the hard bop movement's musicians are Miles Davis, John Coletrane, Cannonball Adderly, Jimmy Cleveland, Lee Konitz, Thelonius Monk and more. Many of these musicians played both be and hard bop jazz.
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