The Evolution of Modern Jazz



Shadorne's thread "Outstanding Examples of Musicianship" inspired me to begin this thread. While Shadorne stated that all genre's were welcome, I felt that me and another jazz aficionado were beginning to dominate that thread. Shadorne is a "Rocker", bless his heart. This community functions best when like minded people engage in common dialogue.

The title explains this thread. We will use "youtube" the same as in Shardone's thread to illustrate our examples, and now I begin.

In the beginning, there was Charlie "Bird" Parker, and he said "Let there Be Bop" and thus it began. While walking down the street, Bird ran into John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, who had similar ideas, so they "Bopped" down the street together; Bird on alto sax and Diz on trumpet. My first illustration of this new music is "Bloomdido" with Bird and Diz. We should cover "Be Bop" in depth before we go to the next phase of this evolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCGweQ8Oso&NR=1
orpheus10

Foster, the decade from roughly 59 to 69 was equivalent to a hydrogen "jazz" bomb explosion. There was so much "connoisseur" jazz created that I'm still making new discoveries.

Although we're into hard bop, there was another genre on a parallel time track, that is almost forgotten; but not by me. Since we have two genre's in the same time period, we'll have to cover both of those before we go to the next phase.

There is so much music in this period, that we're going to be here for awhile. Rather than even mention the other genre, I'll wait to see how everyone wants to proceed.
Would it be safe to say then that Miles spawned Jazz fusion because of Bitches Brew? He then followed with albums that intergrated these two genres like Agartha,Pangea,Dark Magus,Live Evil,Black Beauty and Live at the Filmore West leaving in his wake a stunned following.
Qdrone, I don't know the answer to your question, but we can explore your post as a group when we get there. Since fusion came after "hard bop", that will be the next time phase; but we still have another genre to explore in this time frame.
Let me explain how I think this discussion should proceed. Now, we are in a time frame from late 50's to very early 70's. "Any" good jazz recorded within that time frame is ripe for discussion, including vocals.

Anita O'Day is one jazzy lady who I like, she has style. I have two selections I would like to share with you, one is to see her style, and the other is to hear my favorite song by Anita.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agp2on83hrA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6LTGDYzXNE
Grimace makes a great point, and one that should be remembered when discussing hard bop, as well as any other genre. The evolution of any art form is a continuum. New styles seldom pop up out of the blue (pun intended). This is a great thread, and exactly what I would love to see more of on Agon. But I think it would be great to dig a little deeper as concerns the artists, and the chronology of it all. In discussions such as this, we tend to focus on artists who gain prominence for a variety of resons; some not so obvious. When we think of hard bop tenor we think of Trane more often than not. But who knows what Trane would have sounded like had there been no Dexter Gordon; one of Trane's biggest influences (by Trane's own admission)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4mUgVPyT0&feature=related

Check out Tete Montoliu on piano. Brilliant, and unfortunately not well known is this country.

Qdrone, while Miles is often credited for spawning the fusion movement, there were artists of less prominence (at the time) who beat him to the punch. Guitarist Larry Coryell, vibist Gary Burton, and rockers Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, had all been part of projects which fused jazz and rock, before Miles experimented in that realm.