BEBOP STYLE

Bebop Style

Listening Notes-Bebop Style

The Bud Powell Trio    

A Night in Tunisia

Bebop (1951) Bud Powell (p), Curly Russell (b), Max Roach (d), Dizzy Gillespie (comp)

Introduction

This performance demonstrates the straight forward bebop piece. This composition is one of frequent Dizzy Gillespie works that been explored from the music of Afro Cuban. Excluding the beginning part that is head, Bud Powell and his trio-performance is as a respectable bebop piece. Nevertheless, the intro aspects of Afro Cuban are tranquil audible and A section of the head. Bass here does not stroll although, plays a frequent form in eighth notes.

Discussion

The Western African, music pattern of bell have covered approximately over literally in to Afro Cuban and other music of Latin American and plays Max Roach that is his description of one of these on a cowbell. This playing section of rhythm termed as Latin feel that differentiate from swing feel meaning a walking bass and playing drums a ride pattern. It will be appropriate if we call it a “BEBOP FEEL”. One can analyze the pattern of Powell has translated bebop lines of Parker on to the piano. Right hand used to play this music, while the left hand used infrequently to play the supporting chords on the contrary earlier piano styles; left hand been used more to play the piano. However, brushes used by Max Roach instead of the stick through the music of the song he used brushed on the drum snare in order to keep the beat of the drum, rather than playing a ride pattern on his cymbal (Carl, 2006).

Introduction of the music starts with the drum and then subsequent to four bars the entrance of the bass takes place, following the piano entrances after the four more bars. Nevertheless, it was hard to hear. Section ...