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  • Blessed with an ear sharp enough to hear a gnat shrug, he easily mastered bop's complex vocabulary, but decided that it was too abrasive to give pleasure to ordinary listeners.

    Both Good and Popular Terry Teachout 2011

  • During bop's genesis in the '40s and' 50s, the leading jazz players of the day would move on to after-hours spots once their club gigs were over and jam out until the squares were rising for breakfast.

    Nightlife agenda Post 2010

  • During bop's genesis in the '40s and' 50s, the leading jazz players of the day would move on to after-hours spots once their club gigs were over and jam out until the squares were rising for breakfast.

    Nightlife Agenda: David Guetta, bar-hopping Santas and Dimitri From Paris Fritz Hahn 2010

  • Parker, bop's guiding spirit, was too much the junkie outlaw to be any movement's front man.

    Jazz's Last Hero Trumpeter 2008

  • Noir also shared bop's fondness for small jazz clubs, perfectly suited to bop's pared-down ensembles, and the other urban venues where identities were flaunted, risked, and refashioned.

    Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007

  • Noir also shared bop's fondness for small jazz clubs, perfectly suited to bop's pared-down ensembles, and the other urban venues where identities were flaunted, risked, and refashioned.

    Day into Noir Douglas, Ann 2007

  • This edition of the label's Ballads series features Gordon at his peak and in the company of some of hard bop's best players.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • In the '50s, the quintet he led with trumpeter Clifford Brown helped define hard bop, whose blues and gospel elements smoothed out some of bop's thorny harmonic and rhythmic complexities.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • In the '50s, the quintet he led with trumpeter Clifford Brown helped define hard bop, whose blues and gospel elements smoothed out some of bop's thorny harmonic and rhythmic complexities.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • In the '50s, the quintet he led with trumpeter Clifford Brown helped define hard bop, whose blues and gospel elements smoothed out some of bop's thorny harmonic and rhythmic complexities.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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