Representatives of bebop jazz: alto saxophone master Charlie Parker (Churlie parker), pianist Theloninets Monk (Theloninets Monk) and trumpeter Dick Gillespie ( Dizzy Gillespie, their style of music was called Bebop or Bop.

Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was born in Kansas City, USA in 1920.

Position: Together with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, he is known as the founder of bebop style.

Performance style: The music is sharp and penetrating; the technique is extraordinary and the playing speed is extremely fast; it is extremely precise, and the pronunciation of each note and the handling of stress are very clever.

Representative album: "Dizzy bird at carnegie hall" (collaboration between Parker and Dizzy)

Contains famous songs: "a night in tunisia", "Dizzy atmosphere", "koko", " things to come"

Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) was born in Chelaw, USA in 1917.

Status: The founder of Cuban jazz, and even Latin jazz as a whole

Style characteristics: extraordinary playing skills, and the peculiar shape of the bulging cheeks when playing.

Representative albums: "bird songs, the final recordiness", "dizzy's business", "con alma"

Thelonious Monk (1917-1992)

Style characteristics: Distinctive personality, good at using dissonance, and its harmonic progression is regarded as the most complex improvisational accompaniment; a large number of works are in the form of thirty-two measures A-A-B-A; the music is extremely simple and "blank" It is very important in his improvisation; his accompaniment method is different from the typical bebop accompaniment method, more like a complete work, not a follow-up method; he is also a composer, mainly arranger.

Representative album: "Thlonious Monk at the Blackhawk"

Contains famous songs: "round midnight", "evidence", "let's call this", "epistrophy"

Bop, also known as Bop. A radical jazz style that can be seen as the precursor of modern jazz. Appeared in the mid-1940s.

The main difference between bebop and swing music is that bebop players participate in improvisation, often abandoning the melody after the first theme is played, emphasizing freedom, being adventurous, and playing at a very fast speed. quick. And due to the radical nature of this music style, it was separated from the vast audience who loved jazz and dance music soon after its emergence. Although it greatly improved the artistry of the music, it also weakened the commercial value.