Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 1995/01

From: Piotr Michalowski <piotrm@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Jazz/not jazz
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 09:59:45 -0500

Honest answer to an honest question: Coltrane was much too young at the
time to pioneer bebop, although he did play alto briefly in Dizzy
Gillespie's big band, if my memoy serves me correctly. The history books
usually ascribe bop to Charlie Parker and Dizzy, but, of course, no one
person "invented" it; Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clark, and many others were
working together and apart on ideas that had their roots in the work of
earlier musicians, within jazz and without, to bring together a new style.