What is Bebop?
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Pianist, author, entrepreneur, and pasta lover Jeremy Siskind discusses what bebop is, performing Donna Lee, Budo, Hallucinations, and Anthropology in the process, while discussing musicians like Charlie Parker and Bud Powell.
That was an amazing solo in the end
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching all the way through!
2:56 😂 i love Jeremy’s humor.. also, awesome playing.. followed by impressive history lesson.. pretty great
I've finally found the 1 person who likes my humor! 😂 Could you tell my wife that my humor's great? 😂
Great video. My stepfather was John Williams, not the Star Wars guy the bebop guy. Hearing you play reminds me of hearing him play in the house. I wonder if you are familiar with any of his work. He recorded with Parker and all those guys back in the 50s.
I don't think I know anything about John Williams, the bebop guy, but that's incredible that he recorded with Bird!!!
Even at these fast tempos you are developing interesting and beautiful melodic themes.
That's very kind! Thank you so much!
Wake up babe, new Jeremy video!!! Well timed as always. Can't wait to watch - Oliver, with an embarrassing username from when he was 12 years old
Lol, nice work, Stackman, er, I mean, Oliver! I've seen way more embarrassing user names than this one.
"Let's see how it goes, ahh..." somehow you managed to struggle through it 😂
That's the thing about jazz...you never know until you try! 😉
This was a great video. I enjoy your personality!
Thanks so much Tybo! I appreciate you!
Loving the consistency!
Thanks much, hood Piano girl. I appreciate you watching!
This was awsome! I'd love to see more of these jazz history oriented videos.
I'm glad you liked it. I don't know that much else, but I'll try to think about it!
Love your books and your enthusiasm! Keep up the awesome work Jeremy
I'm really grateful, Mick! Thanks for checking out my videos!
Best brief discussion of bebop I've heard (including Ken Burns). However, regarding the origins of the Klan, it's first iteration (glorified in Birth of a Nation) arose in Tennessee and spread southward (and eastward), while the later revival began in Georgia in the heart of the South. Whoever made up the Indiana story didn't know history (which doesn't rule out that Charlie Parker had that false belief, but I rule it out on grounds that this is the RUclips comment section where one can state as fact whatever one likes).
Thanks so much, Sheila! And thank you for the correction on Indiana. I did get this wrong, but there is a strong association between Indiana and the KKK. www.in.gov/library/collections-and-services/indiana/subject-guides-to-indiana-collection-materials/ku-klux-klan-in-indiana/
@@JeremySiskind I followed up the link and came across this sentence: "In the changing world of the 1920s, the group was against Catholics, Jews, African-Americans, immorality, and drinking." What, against drinking? That's it, I'm cancelling my membership.
Geat playing !!
Many thanks, Coco!
More please
Yessir! More it is!
Thanks Jeremy. I love your channel! Cheers from Argentina
Thank you, Alfonso! I really want to travel to Argentina someday. Let me know if you hear of anyone who needs a pianist. 😉
@@JeremySiskind we need to do something then!
Bebop is like Bach. People who can play it, play it is fast as they possibly can. I love it, but it is really virtuoso music. I feel like jazz education points to this and says “Start here and end here”. True, but as a non-native speaker, I have very little chance of passing as a native resident of 80 years ago.
Fair perspective! Bebop has definitely become the "standard" of jazz education, and it is a more musician-centered and music-centered style than, for instance, swing, which is more audience-centric. But certainly nobody looks down at musicians like Lester Young or Duke Ellington!
awesome stuff, thanks for the explanations and the sick tunes!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching, Manu!
Loved the explanation and the playing ⭐️
Loved it. Will now only listen to bebop today. I get it was a reaction to swing and the commercialisation of jazz, but I wonder if it also was more in the traditional of the Hot Fives etc of Louis Armstrong. Ray Nobel a Brit wrote Cherokee, he wrote a whole suite. It might well be that lyrics were added later, certainly there are instrumental versions under his own orchestra. I think 20s/30s music can feel odd to modern sensibilities. But lots of interesting things going on. The beauty of streaming is that you can give it a listen. I think he gave Glen Miller a job in the brass section when he moved to the states. I joke (but probably mean it) I’m more comfortable with 1920s music than 2020s😂
There's definitely a lot of things going on, like any movement, it's anything but simple, but an amalgamation of lots of different elements and musicians. (and I'm certainly not accusing Ray Noble or anyone of being racist, but simply saying that these pieces can (naturally) be interpreted through that lens).
That improv at beginning was “nasty”, Jeremy! 😮 😅
Great job!! 👏🏾
Thanks so much, Cliff! Thanks for watching!
Jeremy, thanks for this video, your playing is just superb!
Thank you so much, Piano Man, JP! I appreciate it!
I was hoping that you would also explain a fixation (of some, at least) on the bob scale 😊
Thank you for this great video
The bob scale? I don't know any "bob"! 😉 Maybe the "Robert" scale!
@@JeremySiskind This is how Bebob scale is called by some teachers (example - ArtistWorks Jazz)) 😊
Ps. I have to admit that I wrote “bob” scale on purpose to emphasize how different the approach to teaching jazz and even nomenclature could be 😀
That was amazing!
Amazing version of Anthropology!
Wowzer! Great soloing!
Thank you, Pav Jazzy! I'm grateful!
@@JeremySiskind you’re welcome! Always enjoy your vids.
Very informative 👍🏽
Awesome! Thanks for watching, premature optimism!
Awesome tutorial!!! What is the edition of your Real Book? Is it the newest one?
Yep - just using the newest edition of the Real Book, volume 1, as published (legally!) by Hal Leonard
Thank you, Jeremy! Great Infotainment: now I understand much better, how a bebopper ticks.
Awesome! I'm glad you were infotained! 😜
You might add that Monk, particularly, never “dumbed down” his own music. Yet he’s in vogue (and hip) worldwide - in my travels for 3 decades for sure. And sure … he didn’t play what is referred to as “bebop”, even though Bud Powell was, of course, an acolyte of sorts. Hard to put everything in a box even for context. Young people especially are hearing non-popular music/jazz/bebop nowadays - if not in your own neighborhood
It's interesting how Monk was paradoxically so influential in the center of the movement, but ended up stylistically a little bit more at the outskirts.
Cool! Thank you.
I guess Art Tatum music was the 'earlier version' of Bebop, which his music still very hard to be stolen till nowadays.
Art Tatum uses a lot of the harmonic language of bebop but his pianistic style is definitely more closely related to earlier styles like stride piano.
Bravo! I remember when Bobby McFerrin actually sang this. 👏🏽
dang - Bobby McFerrin can do anything. As a piano nerd, I love his album with Chick Corea.
😅😅thanks a lot...love you always....more bebop improvisation
Sure thing! Coming right up!
That Donna Lee was clean!
Wonderful video!
I have one question for you people to think about:
What do you think about movements like what we call now "gipsy jazz" or "jazz manouche" influencing back the American jazz? Because musicians like Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli used to play old jazz standards in a very fast tempo... Could we say that American soldiers who listened to them and maybe played with them enjoyed that idea and helped spread it in the US?
It would be like John Ford influencing Akira Kurosawa and vice-versa...
I guess it could be a very interesting topic to study!
I'm not saying that it's the only influence, of course. But it could be a strong influence amidst several others.
Cheers from Brazil!
I definitely think gypsy jazz is an influential style. There are many groups still playing with those elements and Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli (I probably did terrible on spelling here) are really important musicians! I don't know I have much of importance to say personally about the subject though.
I know whenever I spend a Night in Tunisia, I love to get some Salt Peanuts. These are My Favorite Things.
Edit: I should not have watched this just before bedtime.
haha, well done. I hope you participate in some Ornithology as well.
Miles said he wrote donna lee and showed ir to bird
great stuff!! You're right, the U.S. entered WWII in'41, and it ended in '45... in the process of looking this up, I saw that a bomb from back then just blew up today, 10/2/24 under a Japanese airport runway! Crazy!
Phew, I'm glad I didn't mess up on the history! Wow, all these years later stuff is still blowing up...
Jeremy, wasn’t Miles, and the birth of the cool something of a reaction to Be bop?
Totally! So many artistic movements are reactions to what just happened. In my view, both cool jazz and hard bop are reactions to bebop
I wish I could at least know the path to get from where i am to halfway where you are...
"Cherokee" explicitly refers to a "brave Indian warrior."
I think the lyrics are changed based on the gender of the singer. here are the lyrics I'm most familiar with:
"Sweet Indian maiden
Since first I met you
I can't forget you
Cherokee sweetheart
(Goes on like this..)
Child of the prairie
Your love keeps callin
My heart enthrallin
(... Yes it does, yes it does
And then it goes...)
Cherokee
(Here's the bridge...)
Dreams of summertime
Of lover time
Gone by
Throng my memory
So tenderly
And sigh
My
Sweet Indian maiden
One day I'll hold you
In my arms enfold you
Cherokee
(... And that's it)"
13:55. I think this is a great video on Bebop, unfortunately however, I can't recommend it because I'm not against interracial marriage. I do not think interracial marriage is gross or wrong.
Hm, I think maybe we had a miscommunication here........
Jeremy, you are truly a badass…
🙌 Thank you!
😅more courses of you in open jazz studio...
I've been told that the ballads course will come out in the next month! Stay tuned!
@@JeremySiskind yeah...Thanks....bebop course next
Now Jeremy, be honest. You didn't just pull Bud Powell out of your hat . . . How much practice time did it take to play that opening tune? Probably not much, I'd guess. But, cold?
I’ve seen him take requests cold in person. I wouldn’t be shocked.
That's a tune that I play solo a fair amount - not just pulling out something random. 😉
I'll do that more with ballads, but that's tough wtih a medium or up-tempo tune.
DIG your playing, Jeremy, and teaching !!
Jeremy, you are truly a badass…
I'm grateful, Mark! Thank you!!!