Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a
handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no
one had ever heard before. The music was fast, complicated,
impossible to play for many of the older musicians--but it soon
became the lingua franca of jazz music. They called it bebop, and
as the years went by, it became even more popular. Today it reigns
as perhaps the best-loved style of jazz ever created. Ira Gitler
conveys the excitement of this musical birth as only someone who
was there can. In "The Masters of Bebop," Gitler traces the advent
of what was a revolution in sound. He profiles the leading
players--Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillepie, Max Roach--but also
studies the style and music of the first disciples, such as Dexter
Gordon and J. J. Johnson, to reveal bebop's pervasive influence
throughout American culture. Revised with an updated
discography--and with a new chapter covering bebop right up through
the end of the twentieth century--"The Masters of Bebop" is the
essential listener's handbook.
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