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Many big band musicians in New York City gathered at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, and the many small jazz clubs on West 52nd Street in Manhattan. There the musicians were free to improvise as they wished, free of what some considered the restrictions of an audience expecting smooth, danceable versions of popular songs.
The creation of the musical language of bebop is generally credited to Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonious MonkThelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10 1917 February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist known for his unique improvisational style and many contributions to the standard jazz repertoire. While Monk is often regarded as a founder of bebop, his playing style evolved, who, among others, took part in jams after finishing more formal gigs elsewhere. Much of this development took place between 1939 and 1945, years during which a recording ban had been instituted to conserve resources for the war effortWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough.
Consequently, bop emerged to the wider public somewhat fully-formed in 1945; and the reaction was, at least partly, incomprehension. Bebop never achieved the popularity of swing, and was criticized by some contemporaries for being too technical. ( Cab CallowayCab Calloway ( December 25, 1907 November 18, 1994), born Cabell Calloway III was a famous jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States most popular African American big bands from the start opined famously that bebop was nonsensical "Chinese Music.") Gillespie was quoted as saying that this demanding technique was exactly his goal, to elevate the music to a level where only the most elite musicians could participate.
Though Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong ( August 4, 19011 July 6, 1971) (also known by the nickname Satchmo was an African American jazz musician. Probably the most famous jazz musician of the 20th century, Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative performer whose musical s expressed a dislike for bebop, he was revered by many boppers, who sometimes "quoted" his musical phrases by incorporating fragments of Armstrong's recorded improvisations in their own songs.
Several earlier swing-era musicians are often cited as especially influential in the development of bebop, including saxophoneoctave lower than an Alto Sax. The saxophone or sax is a musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards. It was invented by Adolphe Sax in the mid- 1840s. The saxophone is most common players Coleman HawkinsColeman Randolph Hawkins nicknamed Hawk and sometimes Bean ( November 21, 1904 May 19, 1969) was a prominent jazz tenor saxophone musician. He was an important pioneer on the instrument, sometimes known as 'The Father of Jazz Saxophone playing'. Coleman H and Lester Young, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, and guitarist Charlie Christian.