MUSIC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wayne Shorter, Silent Way, Miles Davis
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In the mid-1940s, a new generation of musicians birthed fresh ideas about how jazz should be played. Jazz began to take the form of high art and focused on small ensembles composed of technically skilled musicians. This style acquired the name bebop , a title derived from the scat syllables used in singing the rhythms and articulations of swing eighth- notes . The development of this music took place in new york, at. Minton"s playhouse in harlem and the clubs along 52nd street. The founders of this style were charlie parker, dizzy gillespie and thelonious. The principal source from which bebop musicians established their. The principal source from which bebop musicians established their repertoire was the body of tin pan alley popular songs. Bebop was developed as an alternative to the jazz of the 1930"s. When played by bebop musicians, these classic tin pan alley songs became more challenging to perform and too fast or too slow to dance to.
