bebop: References & Edit History
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The history of bebop and its musicians is chronicled in Leonard Feather, Inside Be-Bop (1949, reprinted as Inside Jazz, 1977); Ira Gitler, Jazz Masters of the Forties (1966, reprinted 1984), and Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (1985); David H. Rosenthal, Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955β1965 (1992); and Thomas Owens, Bebop: The Music and Its Players (1995).
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| Invalidated site: The Guardian - 50 great moments in jazz: The emergence of bebop. | Aug 07, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Art of Improvising: The Be-Bop Language and the Dominant Seventh Chords (PDF). | Feb 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - 50 great moments in jazz: The emergence of bebop. | Aug 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Bebop SPACES: Master Take. | Oct 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegiee Hall - Timeline of African American Music - Bebop. | Jul 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Liveabout - How the Rise of Bebop Changed Jazz. | Nov 21, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Cupola Scholarship at Gettysburg College - How Bebop Came to Be: The Early History of Modern Jazz. | Jan 18, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: All About Jazz - Classic Bebop. | Jan 18, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harry Ransom Center - Insider's Perspective: The Bebop Revolution. | Jan 18, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Kennedy Center - Swing and Bebop. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 20, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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