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History of Jazz: Development of Bebop

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The next major stylistic turn came with bebop, led by such distinctive stylists as the saxophonist Charlie Parker (known as "Yardbird" or "Bird") and Dizzy Gillespie This marked a major shift from music for dancing towards a complex art form of the first rank. Hard bop was a move away from cool jazz, an attempt to make bop more appealing to audiences by incorporating influences from soul music, gospel music, and the blues. Later, bebop and hard bop musicians, such as trumpeter Miles Davis, made more stylistic advances with modal jazz, where the harmonic structure of pieces was much more free than previously and frequently only implied by skeletal piano chords and bass parts. The instrumentalists then would improvise around a given mode of the scale. Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which centred on the Hammond organ.
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also in 'History of Jazz':-
Jazz Roots | Early 20th Century Jazz | Jazz in 1920s to 1950s | Latin Jazz | Jazz Fusion | Recent Developments in Jazz

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