This post is based on my Arts class on 9/12/11. Michael Morreale discussed Bebop and played several important songs for us.
I found the lecture especially interesting today because of the connections I made with the jazz class I’m already taking. I was already familiar with many important jazz players such as Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. Michael Morreale also played a short song for us on his horn. This was one of my first live jazz performances. Michael Morreale’s lecture ranged from discussion of famous songs to how drugs and musicians lifestyles hurt their careers. Like other art forms in the era, jazz was spontaneous. As bebop developed, it became less of something people could dance to and more of an actual expression.
The song below is by Coleman Hawkins. While Hawkins is associated with the swing era of jazz, he had a role in the development of bebop as well.
