Developed in the 1940s by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

developed in the 1940s by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

• developed in the 1940s by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

• out of the swing music of the 1930s

• small-groups

• fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers

Typical instruments clarinet, saxophone, 

• Typical instruments clarinet, saxophone, 

• trumpet, trombone, 

• piano, double bass, keyboards, drums ,

• electric guitars, 

• acoustic guitars

• 1940s & 50s

• “bebop” is an onomatopoeic reference to the accented melodic lines of the music

• "cool jazz”, modal jazz, free jazz and avant-garde 

Born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua in New Brunswick, New Jersey;

• Born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua in New Brunswick, New Jersey;

• Became interested in guitar after he saw "singing cowboy;"

• Gene Autry in the film Ride Tenderfoot Ride;

• “My father thought I showed signs of being able to play;"

• By the time Pass turned 14 years old - the Gentlemen of Rhythm

• (patterned after the music of the legendary Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt;)

• The following year his parents sent him to New York to study with studio guitar player Harry Volpe;  

• His father got sick, and he took the opportunity to escape to New York;

• Became addicted to drugs (arrested in 1954;)

• From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s he his career into high gear: recorded three albums in Germany , played on releases with jazz artists Earl Bostie, Julie London, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Chet Baker, and Carmen McRae, worked as a sideman for Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Della Reese, Leslie Uggams, Steve Allen, and Johnny Mathis. 

During the 1970s and 1980s, he became the most recorded jazz guitarist, producing solo records as well as accompanying other jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Stephane Grappelli, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims, Ray Brown, and others;

• During the 1970s and 1980s, he became the most recorded jazz guitarist, producing solo records as well as accompanying other jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Stephane Grappelli, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims, Ray Brown, and others;

• Pass died from liver cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 65; 

•  His solo style was marked by an advanced linear technique, sophisticated harmonic sense, counterpoint between improvised lead lines, bass figures and chords, spontaneous modulations, and transitions from fast tempos to  rubato  passages.

• His style covered Bebop, Latin, ballads, blues, originals, solos, duos, trios, big ensembles;

• Satin Doll by Joe Pass:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyjQv52Nzno&feature=related

Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist;

• Belgian Gypsy jazz guitarist;

• Twelve years old he received his first instrument, a banjo/guitar ;

• Learnt to play by mimicking the fingerings of musicians he watched;

• When thirteen he began his musical career playing with popular accordionist Guerino at a dance hall on the Rue Monge;

• He couldn’t read or write, so his name appeared as “Jiango Renard“ on his records;

• At the age of eighteen he got his left hand and right knee badly burnt;

• Developed a whole new fingering system built around the two fingers on his left hand that had full mobility (his soloing was all done with the index and middle fingers);

• 1934 The Quintet of the Hot Club of France was formed;

• First sides recorded: Dinah, Tiger Rag, Oh Lady be Good, and I Saw Stars;

• 1939 the Quintet was touring in England when the war broke out;

• He toured briefly with Duke Ellington in the US

1951 he retired to the small village of Samois sur Seine;

• 1951 he retired to the small village of Samois sur Seine;

• On May 16th 1953 Django suffered a massive brain hemorrhage

• and subsequently died

• Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzsPGHsi90

Played on street corners for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night;

• Played on street corners for dimes, and would sometimes play in as many as four towns a night;

• 1947 - hitchhiked to Memphis, TN, to pursue his music career ;

•  1948 - performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM out of West Memphis, considered as his big break;

• He got a ten-minute spot on black-staffed and managed Memphis radio station WDIA - "King's Spot“ which later on became “B.B.King;”

• Lucille;

• He developed one of the world's most identifiable guitar styles, borroweingfrom Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, integrating his precise and complex vocal-like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarist's vocabulary;

• B.B. continues to tour extensively, averaging over 250 concerts per year around the world. 

• Sweet Sixteen by B. B. King

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZZSpc5ODQ

Thank you for your attention!

• Thank you for your attention!

Bebop, Jacob Teichroew, About.com, http://jazz.about.com/od/glossaryofjazzterms/g/Bebop.htm

• Bebop, Jacob Teichroew, About.com, http://jazz.about.com/od/glossaryofjazzterms/g/Bebop.htm

• What is Bebop, Jacob Teichroew, About.com, http://jazz.about.com/od/introductiontojazz/a/Bebop.htm

• Bebop, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop

• Blues, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues

• Joe Pass Biography, http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608000781/Joe-Pass.html

• Joe Pass, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass

• Django Reinhardt, Joseph Dinkins, http://www.redhotjazz.com/django.html

• Django Reinhardt, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt

• B.B.King, http://www.bbking.com/bio/