Bebop: The Music and Its Players
by Thomas Owens
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""When bebop was new,"" writes Thomas Owens, ""many jazz musicians and most of the jazz audience heard it as radical, chaotic, bewildering music."" For a nation swinging to the smoothly orchestrated sounds of the big bands, this revolutionary movement of the 1940s must have seemed destined for a short life on the musical fringe. But today, Owens writes, bebop is nothing less than ""the lingua franca of jazz, serving as the principal musical language of thousands of jazz musicians."" In show more Bebop, Owens conducts us on an insightful, loving tour through the music, players, and recordings that change show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1995
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 781.655 — Arts & recreation Music General principles and musical forms Traditions of music Jazz {equally instrumental and vocal} Modern jazz
- LCC
- ML3506 .O95 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Popular music
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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