A lean, edgy tone; the use of blues inflections; frequent double-time sixteenth-note runs; many recognizable bebop-style licks; the use of scale-chord relationships resulting fro extended harmonies; disjointed, irregularly accented melodic lines. The following describes the playing of whom?

After his father died in 1927, Gillespie taught himself the trumpet and trombone; for two years he attended the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina, where he played in the band and took music classes. Gillespie’s penchant for clowning and capriciousness earned him the nickname Dizzy.

Bebop took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed on them additional “substituted” chords. It also broke up the metronomic regularity of the drummer’s rhythmic pulse and produced solos played in double time with several bars packed with 16th notes. The result was complicated improvisation.

Whereas in Big Band Swing the focus was (is)on the soloist, in Bebop the focus was (is) on the arrangement and the playing of the ensemble. The basic format for the performance of a bebop tune is: head played in unison by the horns for the first and last chorus with a lot of improvised solos in between.

Heroin use had become ‘membership in a unique club'[89], the quintessential marker of an adherent to the bebop principles and its associated lifestyle on society’s fringes.

This was where Charlie Parker first appeared as a solo act when he briefly lived in New York. Thelonious Monk played at Uptown House. When Monk met Powell he introduced Powell to musicians who were starting to play bebop at Minton’s Playhouse. Monk was a resident pianist, and he presented Powell as his protégé.

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features compositions characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure.

Why was rock and roll initially dismissed by jazz musicians? appreciative of and tolerant toward all jazz styles.