Bebop

GREATEST ACTIVITY PERIOD: 1945-1950

CHARACTERISTICS: Small ensembles (trio, quartet, quintet). Focus on improvisation rather than on complex arrangements. Complex, angular melodies usually played in unison. Longer, irregular phrasing. Usually faster tempos than in swing. Emphasis on virtuosity, instrumental technique. Drummer is now more interactive (dropping bombs) with soloist. Use of contrafacts (original melody lines written over standard chord progressions). Increased harmonic complexities (alterations and substitutions of standard chord progressions).

IMPORTANT MUSICIANS: Charlie Parker (alto sax), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Bud Powell (piano), Thelonious Monk (piano/composer), Max Roach (drums), Dexter Gordon (tenor sax), J.J. Johnson (trombone).

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Conception - Reggie Workman Full Bass Score

Celia - Charlie Haden Full Bass Score

Milestones (Old) - Nelson Boyd Full Bass Line

Four - Percy Heath Full Bass Line

Billie's Bounce - Curley Russell Full Bass Line

Bebop - Oscar Pettiford Full Bass Line

Segment - Dave Holland Full Bass Score

Billie's Bounce - Christian McBride Full Bass Score

Perdido - Oscar Pettiford Full Cello Score

Au Privave - NHØ Pedersen Full Bass Score

Translation - Oscar Pettiford Bass Line (1 Chorus) + Solo

Ornithology - Red Mitchell Bass Line (2 Choruses) + Solo

S'Posin - Scott LaFaro Solo + Intro Bass Line

Confirmation - George Mraz Line (1st Ch.) + Solo

Tricotism - Oscar Pettiford Full Bass Score

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Jymie Merritt

A classically trained player with a surging style characterized by the frequent use of triplet figures and putting notes ahead of the beat, Jymie Merritt made a successful switch from jazz to R&B and blues and back to jazz again in the ’50s. Merritt played with John Coltrane, Benny Golson, and Philly Joe Jones in 1949, but worked with Bull Moos.. Go to the Page

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Jazz Bass Transcriptions

Bebop

Did you not find anything interesting?

Conception - Reggie Workman Full Bass Score

Celia - Charlie Haden Full Bass Score

Milestones (Old) - Nelson Boyd Full Bass Line

Four - Percy Heath Full Bass Line

Billie's Bounce - Curley Russell Full Bass Line

Bebop - Oscar Pettiford Full Bass Line

Segment - Dave Holland Full Bass Score

Billie's Bounce - Christian McBride Full Bass Score

Perdido - Oscar Pettiford Full Cello Score

Au Privave - NHØ Pedersen Full Bass Score

Translation - Oscar Pettiford Bass Line (1 Chorus) + Solo

Ornithology - Red Mitchell Bass Line (2 Choruses) + Solo

S'Posin - Scott LaFaro Solo + Intro Bass Line

Confirmation - George Mraz Line (1st Ch.) + Solo

Tricotism - Oscar Pettiford Full Bass Score

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