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As bebop waned and funk and rock music arrived, the 1970s and early ’80s witnessed a shift, not only in sound but also in the way onlookers behaved.
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Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Reno places a speaker on the table and plays bebop.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Modern jazz, bebop, R&B, funk and hip-hop have all been heard at the festival.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025
In 1940's Sepia Panorama, the cyclical A-B-C-C-B-A form includes an otherworldly chorus of piano and bass call and response that predates bebop by half a decade and includes whole-tone scales and unheard of melodic bass played by 21-year-old Jimmy Blanton.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
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Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
Reno places a speaker on the table and plays bebop.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Modern jazz, bebop, R&B, funk and hip-hop have all been heard at the festival.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025
In 1940's Sepia Panorama, the cyclical A-B-C-C-B-A form includes an otherworldly chorus of piano and bass call and response that predates bebop by half a decade and includes whole-tone scales and unheard of melodic bass played by 21-year-old Jimmy Blanton.
—Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Bebop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bebop. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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