Bebop Era

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisationbased on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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00:00 - Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts 03:25 - Gil Evans - Straight No Chaser 09:41 - Coleman Hawkins - Bean's Talking Again 12:56 - Charles Parker - Si Si 15:35 - Bud Powell - How High the Moon 19:28 - Max Roach & Julian Priester - The Champs 22:32 - Charlie Christian - Seven Come Eleven 25:15 - Oscar Peterson - Swinging On a Star 30:04 - Chet Baker - I'll Remember April 35:55 - Lennie Tristano - Line Up 39:26 - Thelonious Monk - We See 41:59 - Wes Montgomery - Gone With the Wind 48:16 - Milt Jackson - My Funny Valentine 52:54 - Art Pepper - Minority 57:11 - Toots Thielemans - Don't Be That Way 01:01:50 - Clifford Brown - Take the A Train Brought to you by The Wnts Jazz Education Program JazzAndBluesExperience