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I couldn't help but notice the glaring omission of any Monk tunes....he's one of the bebop architects...
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03-20-2016 11:26 PM
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Cherokee. Wail.
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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Parisian Thoroughfare. Tin Tin Deo. Well You Neednt, Wood n You. Hot House.
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
Straight No Chaser
In Walked Bud
Well You Needn't
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03-21-2016, 04:29 AM #31destinytot Guest
Stablemates
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03-21-2016, 04:30 AM #32destinytot Guest
Minority
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03-21-2016, 04:39 AM #33destinytot Guest
Hi-Fly
Con Alma
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Blue Monk
Rhythm'a'ning
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Let's not forget the great Jackie McLean:
Dr. Jackle
Little Melonae
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
Wail I think I already have on my list...
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by christianm77
List of jazz contrafacts | World Public Library - eBooks | Read eBooks online
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
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It totally qualifies. KO KO was Cherokee. This was Birds first recording post recording ban. It launched Be Bop to the world. Cherokee perhaps more than any other song defines bop.
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Like Gumbo says, where's the Monk, man?....
A fixture at Minton's.
The guy wrote "52nd Street Theme" for crying out loud!
You add Monk's compositions and you'll have 80 bebop tunes!
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Originally Posted by TommyCorsica2
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
In any case what I want is heads - things with bop language in.
Saying Cherokee is bebop is to me like saying How High the Moon or All the Things You Are are bebop. Tunes roughly contemporary with the bop era, and associated with, but certainly not only played by boppers.
That's to say - I'd be comfortable playing these tunes on a swing gig for dancers, albeit more at this type of tempo in the case of Cherokee bop heads or anything rhythmically busy like that isn't popular with Lindy Hoppers... They're not really happy even with something as rhythmically straightforward as Tickle Toe, but something with loads of pushes and asymmetrical rhythms like a Parker head - they'd end up tripping over their legs haha.
Here's another *swing* version. (Period musical borderline racism to boot ...)
That said, I do know one swing dance DJ who sticks this on for competition dancers. This I'd love to see:
Ko-ko is too hard so it doesn't count haha... ;-)Last edited by christianm77; 03-21-2016 at 02:34 PM.
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
The Thelonious Monk Compositions
Anyway I feel Monk is so brilliantly unique it's kind of his own thing. I know a few of those already, but didn't list them....
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The originators of Bop were five, in my estimation. One Kenny "Klook" Clark was a drummer. You have Diz, Bud, Monk and Bird. Those are the guys. IF you are talking about Be Bop.
The language they spoke was written in very important songs. Many were contra facts. Some were direct tunes like High High The Moon, ATTYA and Cherokee. I understand. BUT if you are learning bop heads - bop tunes you cannot over look those and not overlook Monk.
I mean do what you want.
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
I often play Epistrophy (with that arrangement with the cool 1/4 triplets from that recording with Milt Jackson.) F**cking nightmare of a tune haha.
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Do I get extra credit for using the word "Bop" in the title?
Boplicity - Miles Davis and I think Gil Evans, really sounds like a Bird tune to me.
dearmond 1100 reissue vs original which one is...
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