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Anita O'Day - FOUR. Anita O'day performing at Newport Jazz Festival.

Dizzy Gillespie

Bud Powell - 52nd Street Theme. Bebop Jazz: The Evolution of Culture Through Music. Papa Jo Jones drum solo. Bebop. Bebop or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody.

Bebop

It was developed in the early and mid-1940s. It first surfaced in musicians' argot some time during the first two years of American involvement in the Second World War. This style of jazz ultimately became synonymous with modern jazz, as either category reached a certain final maturity in the 1960s. Etymology[edit] Sarah Vaughan. Anita O'Day - Take The "A" Train. Anita O'Day Tea For Two (Improved) Ain't That A Kick In the Head- Dean Martin. Ernestine Anderson-Someday My Prince will Come. Mose Allison - Lost Mind.wmv.

Charlie Parker

Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk. Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk [FULL ALBUM] [HQ] Betty carter It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Beware My Heart (1964) ABBY LINCOLN - Blue Monk.