bebop

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Americans were settling down, ballrooms were fading, and audiences were turning to bebop, rhythm and blues, and singers such as Frank Sinatra.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The bebop groove abandons James, too, slowing into jagged drum solos.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Although he was in his 50s, he embraced rap music because he saw similarities with the energy of bebop jazz, and because may of its stars had risen out of hardship on the streets.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024

Now we’re focusing on Max Roach, who, alongside the drummers Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey, helped pioneer bebop in the 1940s.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023

This frantic, somersaulting style turned within a few years into bebop, the elite modern jazz of the late 1940s and ’50s.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall