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    Bebop was a new style of jazz that emerged in the 1940s and split jazz into two opposing camps. It was characterized by fast tempos, new harmonies including substituted chords, and complex improvised solos packed into double time using many 16th notes. The movement was originated by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, guitarist Charlie Christian, pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Kenny Clarke, and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. A later related style called hard bop or funky jazz evolved and incorporated elements of gospel and rhythm and blues, with prominent figures like Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, and Art Blakey.

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    Bebop was a new style of jazz that emerged in the 1940s and split jazz into two opposing camps. It was characterized by fast tempos, new harmonies including substituted chords, and complex improvised solos packed into double time using many 16th notes. The movement was originated by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, guitarist Charlie Christian, pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Kenny Clarke, and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. A later related style called hard bop or funky jazz evolved and incorporated elements of gospel and rhythm and blues, with prominent figures like Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, and Art Blakey.

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    Bebop was a new style of jazz that emerged in the 1940s and split jazz into two opposing camps. It was characterized by fast tempos, new harmonies including substituted chords, and complex improvised solos packed into double time using many 16th notes. The movement was originated by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, guitarist Charlie Christian, pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Kenny Clarke, and alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. A later related style called hard bop or funky jazz evolved and incorporated elements of gospel and rhythm and blues, with prominent figures like Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, and Art Blakey.

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    bebop, also called bop, the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last
    half of the 1940s. The word is an onomatopoeic rendering of a staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in this
    type of music. When it emerged, bebop was unacceptable not only to the general public but also to many
    musicians. The resulting breachesfirst, between the older and younger schools of musicians and,
    second, between jazz musicians and their publicwere deep, and the second never completely healed.
    Whereas earlier jazz was essentially diatonic (i.e., basing melodies and harmonies on traditional Western
    major and minor 7-note scales comprising 5 whole and 2 half steps), much of the thinking that informed the
    new movement was chromatic (drawing on all 12 notes of the chromatic scale). Thus the harmonic territory
    open to the jazz soloist was vastly increased.
    Bebop took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed on them additional substituted chords. It also
    broke up the metronomic regularity of the drummers rhythmic pulse and produced solos played in double
    time with several bars packed with 16th notes. The result was complicatedimprovisation.
    The movement originated during the early 1940s in the playing of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, guitaristCharlie
    Christian, pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Kenny Clarke, and the most richly endowed of all, alto
    saxophonist Charlie Bird Parker.
    A later style, known as hard bop, or funky, evolved from and incorporated elements of gospel music
    and rhythm and blues. Horace Silver was the most prominent pianist, composer, and bandleader in this
    period. Cannonball Adderley and Art Blakey led other hard bop combos.
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