50's Jazz Culture
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50's Jazz Culture
Erron Semken
Mark & Terrance
History of Jazz
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Classic jazz the culture of the times
1940 wasn't just the change of a decade it was the start of an
Era classic jazz was evolving. This new style of playing would change
jazz forever.
It was 1940 Italy declares war on Britain and France and the
German army occupies Paris, meanwhile in a smoky New York hot spot
Dizzy Gillespie plays to a full house late into the night. Bebop, which
was still a style in the making, was a welcome change from big band
swing. This new style of music was more complex but it gave
musicians an opportunity to use their talent pieces were done with a
lot of improvisation and solo's limited only to the musicians own
imagination.
Bebop was slowly taking over the under ground music scene.
Clubs in Harlem that were known for serving black customers were
filling every night with whites that were in trance with the music they
heard. Unlike big band that was usually danced to bebop gave you a
chance to sit back and appreciate the music for what it was.
In 1945 the same year that Hitler commits suicide and the U.S.
drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Parker and Gillespie go out to the west coast and get a good response
to bebop. The fresh sound is now alive across the country. Gillespie
went on to try his hand at big band when his dream flopped in 1946 he
dropped the band down to a bop quintet.
By late 1947 he decided to try the big band idea again. The band had
a better response but by 1950 the band separated due to...
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