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It's just music. it's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. the beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. it pushes it. it helps it. help is the big thing. it has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
-Charlie Parker
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It's Just Music. It's Trying To Play

Charlie Parker
It's just music. it's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. the beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. it pushes it. it helps it. help is the big thing. it has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.
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I love jazz. so to me, there are two main types of jazz. there's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. listening jazz is like thelonius monk or john coltrane, where it's a listening experience. so that's what i like; i like to make stuff that you listen to. it's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. that's why you sit and listen to jazz. you dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. i think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.
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All i want to say to people, man, is, "yo, you see me walking down the street and i got a little bop in my walk, don't think because i've got a bop in my walk i'm trying to be all that. the bop in my walk is because i'm just like you, man. i bop when i walk." know what i'm saying? i'm proud. if you see me smiling, standing straight up, gold around my neck, it's not because i'm conceited. it's because i'm proud of what i achieved. i made this. i worked hard for this. that's all this is about.
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We not only grew up on be-bop; be-bop raised us. for my generation, be-bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.for us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. we walked, dressed, and rapped be-bop.
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Bop began with jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, dizzy gillespie or charlie parker or thelonious monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd street or south main in l.a. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. bop.
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A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. beginning at around age three i started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. i like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. it's always where i go back to when i want to feel grounded.
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