Gary Giddins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690411
- eISBN:
- 9781452949536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690411.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses the popularization of bebop jazz music through the band Diz and Bird on Fifty-second Street. The jazz audience considered bebop a terrible dissonance and a frantic assault on ...
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This chapter discusses the popularization of bebop jazz music through the band Diz and Bird on Fifty-second Street. The jazz audience considered bebop a terrible dissonance and a frantic assault on decency and good taste. Dizzy Gillespie teamed up with Oscar Pettiford, with pianist George Wallington, saxophonist Don Byas, and Charlie Parker to form the band Diz and Bird on Fifty-second Street. They conducted their first performance of bebop jazz at Three Deuces club where many listeners found bebop jazz enticing.Less
This chapter discusses the popularization of bebop jazz music through the band Diz and Bird on Fifty-second Street. The jazz audience considered bebop a terrible dissonance and a frantic assault on decency and good taste. Dizzy Gillespie teamed up with Oscar Pettiford, with pianist George Wallington, saxophonist Don Byas, and Charlie Parker to form the band Diz and Bird on Fifty-second Street. They conducted their first performance of bebop jazz at Three Deuces club where many listeners found bebop jazz enticing.
