Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early-to-mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo,complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key,instrumental virtuosity,and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure,the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.
Jerome Richardson was an American jazz musician and woodwind player. He played the soprano saxophone,alto saxophone,tenor saxophone,baritone saxophone,bass saxophone,soprano clarinet,alto clarinet,bass clarinet,piccolo,western concert flute,soprano flute,alto flute,tenor flute,and bass flute. He played with Charles Mingus,Lionel Hampton,Billy Eckstine,The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra,Kenny Burrell,and later with Earl Hines' small band.
Alan Warren Haig was an American jazz pianist,best known as one of the pioneers of bebop.
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone,he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation,recording more than 100 albums. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern because of his tendency to rarely work with the same musicians for long despite his relentless touring and devotion to jazz. Stitt was sometimes viewed as a Charlie Parker mimic,especially earlier in his career,but gradually came to develop his own sound and style,particularly when performing on tenor saxophone and even occasionally baritone saxophone.
Dillon "Curley" Russell was an American jazz musician,who played bass on many bebop recordings.
Adolph Stanley Levey known professionally as Stan Levey was an American jazz drummer. He was known for working with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the early development of bebop during the 1940s,and in the next decade had a stint with bandleader Stan Kenton. Levey retired from music in the 1970s to work as a photographer.
Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album recorded on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto,Canada. Credited to "the Quintet",the group was composed of five leading "modern" players of the day:Dizzy Gillespie,Charlie Parker,Bud Powell,Charles Mingus,and Max Roach. It was the only time that the five musicians recorded together as a unit,and it was the last recorded meeting of Parker and Gillespie.
"I'll Remember April" is a popular song and jazz standard with music written in 1941 by Gene de Paul,and lyrics by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye. It made its debut in the 1942 Abbott and Costello comedy Ride 'Em Cowboy,being sung by Dick Foran. The lyric uses the seasons of the year metaphorically to illustrate the growth and death of a romance. The lyric also uses the ideas of the hours in a day and the flames of a fire to illustrate a relationship growing stronger and subsequently losing strength. Another interpretation is the use of spring to express the loves that were had in youth and remember them when the autumn of life arrives with affection and nostalgia,smiling:"I'll remember April and I smile". The song has been described as one which makes use of nostalgia.
"Con Alma" is a jazz standard written by Dizzy Gillespie,appearing on his 1954 album Afro. The tune incorporates aspects of bebop jazz and Latin rhythm,and is known for its frequent changes in key centers,while still maintaining a singable melody.
Matthew Gee was an American bebop trombonist.
Groovin' High is a 1955 compilation album of studio sessions by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The Rough Guide to Jazz describes the album as "some of the key bebop small-group and big band recordings."
Jazz Giants '58 is a 1958 album produced by Norman Granz featuring Stan Getz,Gerry Mulligan and Harry "Sweets" Edison,accompanied by Louis Bellson and the Oscar Peterson trio.
The Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie,Sonny Stitt,John Lewis,Percy Heath,Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip. The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label,Norgran Records. Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album,Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.
Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie,and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins,recorded in December 1957 in New York City. It was released in 1959 on producer Norman Granz's newly launched Verve label.
Award Winner:Stan Getz is a 1957 album by Stan Getz.
Diz and Getz is an album by Dizzy Gillespie,featuring Stan Getz.
The Giants of Jazz is a live album of an English concert recorded at Victoria Theatre in London in two concerts on the same date,November 14,1971,by Art Blakey,Dizzy Gillespie,Al McKibbon,Thelonious Monk,Sonny Stitt,and Kai Winding,who were billed as The Giants of Jazz. The album was released by the Atlantic.
"Woody 'n' You",is a 1942 jazz standard written by Dizzy Gillespie as an homage to Woody Herman. It was one of three arrangements Gillespie made for Herman's big band,although it was not used at the time;the other two were "Swing Shift" and "Down Under". It was introduced on record in 1944 by Coleman Hawkins initiated by Budd Johnson,Hawkins' musical director of his 12-man orchestra that included the bebop pioneers Oscar Pettiford,Max Roach and Gillespie.
West Coast Jazz is a 1955 album by Stan Getz accompanied by a quartet including trumpeter Conte Candoli. Getz recorded the album in California,where he was filming parts for The Benny Goodman Story,and appearing for a week at the nightclub Zardi's Jazzland. The musicians that accompanied him at Zardi's were chosen by Getz to make this album with him.
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