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In 1940's Sepia Panorama, the cyclical A-B-C-C-B-A form includes an otherworldly chorus of piano and bass call and response that predates bebop by half a decade and includes whole-tone scales and unheard of melodic bass played by 21-year-old Jimmy Blanton.
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Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
His tunes draw on a broad spectrum of Black American music, seamlessly encompassing blues, funk and R&B along with bebop and avant garde directions forged by Ornette Coleman (which are also steeped in the blues).
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
Bird was the nickname of Charlie Parker, the innovative bebop saxophonist and Joans’s roommate, whom Joans first memorialized in oil paint shortly after his untimely death in 1955.
—Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Minton’s Playhouse is widely considered the birthplace of bebop.
—Shannon J. Effinger, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
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Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
His tunes draw on a broad spectrum of Black American music, seamlessly encompassing blues, funk and R&B along with bebop and avant garde directions forged by Ornette Coleman (which are also steeped in the blues).
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
Bird was the nickname of Charlie Parker, the innovative bebop saxophonist and Joans’s roommate, whom Joans first memorialized in oil paint shortly after his untimely death in 1955.
—Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Minton’s Playhouse is widely considered the birthplace of bebop.
—Shannon J. Effinger, AFAR Media, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Bebop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bebop. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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