MUS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bebop
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Very much like hip hop that developed in 70s. This was for small group of jazz musicians. Be(cid:272)ause to da(cid:374)(cid:272)e you (cid:374)eed a te(cid:373)po this for(cid:373) did(cid:374)"t have any tempo. Jazz was improvisation but there was still some sort of arrangement. Bebop players said well i m gonna do whatever i want and they would improvise their entire songs. He practiced youngs solos when he was kicked out from the band he found all the records of youngs and mastered the solo and performed them better than young. He left kansas city and went to new york and started working in a restaurant there he met a blind genius piano player art tatam. He could play more notes than anybody else and he could improvise for 4 5 hours without stopping charley sat their doing dishes and just listening to him play and he try to pick it up on his saxophone.
