Lecture Jazz (Part 3) AFTER SWING 
BEBOP 1945-1955 East Coast "bebop" was a scat word that described a quick two-note phrase Bebop (as a style of jazz) was usually very fast, technical, and complex - difficult to play . . . impossible to dance to! Bebop was more for the musicians than the audience. Audiences wanted smooth, danceable tunes. The musicians loved to cut loose on improvisations without so many restrictions. The best of these musicians were truly virtuosic. But . . . Jazz became less commercial.  |  |  | Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) Shaw 'Nuff listen | Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) | Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920-1955) KoKo listen |
COOL JAZZ 1949-1955 West Coast Cool jazz was a reaction to Bebop. (You remember the earlier versions of "Hot Jazz" and "Cool Jazz")  | Take Five listen This song is unusual in that the beats are in groups of 5 instead of the most common grouping of 4 Hence the name of the song!! Try counting to 5 over and over as you listen to get the feel of the meter. This is the best-selling jazz single of all time. Guess that makes it pretty popular! | Dave Brubeck (1920- ) |
FUNKY JAZZ Your textbook calls it "a jazz version of the prevailing rhythm and blues style in the 1950s."  | |  | Art Blakey (1919-1990) Goldie Watch | | Horace Silver (1917-1993) |
BOSSA NOVA 1958-1963 Bossa Nova was a combination of Cool Jazz and Brazilian influences like the samba.  | Girl From Ipanema listen |  | Stan Getz (1927-1991) | | Charlie Byrd (1925-1999) |
JAZZ-ROCK FUSION  | Miles Davis was a very influential figure in legitimizing rock elements in the minds of the artists within the jazz genre. If it was ok with Miles, it must be ok 
|  | Miles Davis (1926-1991) Walkin' watch | | Herbie Hancock (1940- ) Watermelon Man listen |
FREE JAZZ  | Free Jazz listen Coleman's album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation was both innovative and controversial and provided the name for this type of experimental jazz less structured and more dissonant than any other type of jazz (Be sure and look up a definition for "dissonant") | Ornette Coleman (1930- ) |
There's no place to go from here!! Jazz went from enjoying the largest share of the popular audience in the Swing Era to losing most of its audience as it became more and more experimental, culminating in Free Jazz but you can still hear all of the styles of jazz played today. Which is your favorite? 
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