Jazz is a 20th century musical idiom which has passed through various trends. One of the these, Be-bop, is mainly attributed to what two jazz legends?
a. Duke Ellington and Joe "King" Oliver
b. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
c. Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith
d. Sammy Davis Jr. and Ray Charles
The answer is B, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie!
Gillespie and Parker, both out of the Earl Hines Band in Chicago had traveled with some of the pre-bop masters, including Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines and Jay McShann. These forerunners of bebop began exploring advanced harmonies, complex syncopation, altered chords, and chord substitutions and the bop generation advanced these techniques with a more freewheeling and often arcane approach. Bebop or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody. In a bebop compositions such as Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts", the rhythmic emphasis is on the second and fourth beats of the measure. Such new rhythmic phrasing techniques give the typical bop solo a feeling of floating free over the underlying song form, rather than being tied into the song form.
a. Duke Ellington and Joe "King" Oliver
b. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
c. Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith
d. Sammy Davis Jr. and Ray Charles
The answer is B, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie!
Gillespie and Parker, both out of the Earl Hines Band in Chicago had traveled with some of the pre-bop masters, including Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines and Jay McShann. These forerunners of bebop began exploring advanced harmonies, complex syncopation, altered chords, and chord substitutions and the bop generation advanced these techniques with a more freewheeling and often arcane approach. Bebop or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody. In a bebop compositions such as Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts", the rhythmic emphasis is on the second and fourth beats of the measure. Such new rhythmic phrasing techniques give the typical bop solo a feeling of floating free over the underlying song form, rather than being tied into the song form.
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