Like trumpet visionary Miles Davis, drummer Max Roach helped ignite several revolutions in jazz. From the bebop eruptions of the 1940s to the “cool jazz” style of the ’50s, from the black nationalism ...
The ironic thing about bebop is that when this style of jazz was introduced and presented to the general public in the mid-1940s, it was widely regarded by the music industry as the most esoteric ...
The course: Bebop, Modernism and Change. 3 credits. Offered by the Center for Africana Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Syllabus: “Jazz is a marvelous subject that needs more ...