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Bebop : the music and its players /

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Created in the jazz clubs of New York City, and initially treated by most musicians and audiences as radical, chaotic, and bewildering: bebop has become, Thomas Owen writes, 'the lingua franca of jazz, serving as the principal musical language of thousands of jazz musicians.' In Bebop, Owe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, Thomas, 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Bop (Music) > History and criticism.
Jazz musicians > United States.
Musiciens de jazz > États-Unis.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
Bop (Music)
Jazz musicians
United States
Geschichte
Bebop
Jazz.
Jazz > History
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Beginnings
  • Early Classics
  • The Parker Style
  • Alto Saxophonists
  • Tenor Saxophonists
  • Trumpeters
  • Pianists
  • Bassists and Drummers
  • Other Instrumentalists
  • Ensembles
  • Younger Masters.