Why does this double-time break by Louis Armstrong sound bebop-ish to me?

[brent.h]

Amazing stuff from 1929.

Break starts at 2:42, but listen a few seconds before to get the context.

[garybaldy]

Amazing stuff from 1929.

Break starts at 2:42, but listen a few seconds before to get the context.

Brilliant stuff!

[ruger9]

They don't make 'em like that anymore. Incredible. Same goes for BB King- especially early BB King.

I don't hear bebop, but I do hear what you're talking about- what I could maybe call the first shade of the first bebop lick LOL.

Louis is one of my favorite players of any genre, and easily one of my favorite jazz players, period. His autobiographies are highly recommended.

[brent.h]

They don't make 'em like that anymore. Incredible. Same goes for BB King- especially early BB King.

I don't hear bebop, but I do hear what you're talking about- what I could maybe call the first shade of the first bebop lick LOL.

Early BB King reminds me of Charlie Christian!

The chromatic fragments in Louis' break remind me of Barry Harris fragments.

[Sam Sherry]

I don't hear bebop, but I do hear what you're talking about- what I could maybe call the first shade of the first bebop lick LOL.

"Hot can be cool
and cool can be hot
and each can be both
but hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz."
-- Louis Armstrong

[wintermoon]

doesn't sound any more boppish than his famous West End Blues intro imo

[sgosnell]

doesn't sound any more boppish than his famous West End Blues intro imo

That's the ringtone on my phone, has been for a looong time.

[PatrickJazzGuitar]

Sorta the first lick but overall no

[rpjazzguitar]

I wouldn't have thought of bebop, but I bet every bebopper had heard it.