The Post Bop Era

“Musical Individuality ”

Stylistic Elements

1. Hard Bop differs from Bebop with more varying accompaniments, and more emphasis on unrelenting swing feel. Associated with Charles Mingus and Horace Silver.
2. Cool jazz was more mellow and melodic than Bop, taking harmonies from contemporary composers like Debussy. Associated with Miles Davis.
3. Modal jazz used accompaniment that rarely changed and focused on the virtuosity of the soloist for the melodic interest. Associated with John Coltrane.
4. West Coast Jazz was a more relaxed style of bebop with rhythmic variety in meters other than 4/4.
   Associated with Dave Brubeck, and Gerry Mulligan.
5. Jazz / Rock styles overlapped to create the style known as Fusion. It contained small frequently repeated sections called vamping. Associated with Herbie Hancock.
   

Historical Events during this period

1. Presidents include Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon
2. Albert Einstein dies (1955)
3. Boycott of busses in Montgomery, Alabama sparked when Rosa Parks is arrested (1956)
4. Russia is the first in space with their satellite “Sputnik”(1957)
5. “The Cat In The Hat” is created by Dr. Suess (1957)
6. Fidel Castro takes over Cuba (1959)
7. The Berlin Wall is built to separate East and West Berlin (1961)
8. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas (1963)
9. Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his “I have a dream” speech in Washington (1963)
10. Walt Disney introduces the film “Mary Poppins” (1965)

Call Charts

• Cadence

• Cadenza

• Chromatic

• Contemporary

• Cool

• Dissonance

• Free Form

• Free Jazz

• Fusion

• Groove

• Hard Bop

• Harlem Stride

• Jam

• Keyboard

• Latin

• Modal

• Modulate

• Pick up

• Post Bop

• Rhythm machine

• Stop-Time

• Synthesizer

• Timbre

• West Coast