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Thomas OwensPublication Details
BookOxford University Press1995Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3506 .O95 1995 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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.” 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.” Illustrating his discussion with numerous musical excerpts, Owens skillfully demonstrates why bebop was so revolutionary, with fascinating glimpses of the tempestuous jazz world: Thelonious Monk, for example, did “everything ‘wrong’ in the sense of traditional piano technique….Because his right elbow fanned outward away from his body, he often hit the keys at an angle rather than in parallel. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- In Bebop, Owens conducts us on an insightful, loving tour through the music, players, and recordings that changed American culture. Combining vivid portraits of bebop’s gigantic personalities with deft musical analysis, he ranges from the early classics of modern jazz (starting with the 1943 Onyx Club performances of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Don Byas, and George Wallington) through the central role of Charlie Parker, to an instrument-by-instrument look at the key players and their innovations
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- 0195052870
- 0195106512
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