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"bebop" Definitions
  1. a type of jazz with complicated rhythms

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The Bebop-Pro Thermo is based on an updated version of the Bebop drone.
"It's difficult to play the standard bebop repertoire without playing standard bebop," he said.
Cowboy Bebop If you were ever curious about anime, or thought it was too childish or ridiculous, you need to try Cowboy Bebop, the 1997 animated series.
Bebop follows Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, two bounty hunting "cowboys" who take on assignments to make enough money to eat and fuel the Bebop, their interplanetary ship.
Parrot, the original household drone company, recently released the Bebop 2 Power, an upgraded version of the Bebop 2 with a better camera, better controls, and more battery life.
Queen of Bebop , by Elaine M. Hayes (Ecco) .
Parrot Bebop Parrot launched the company's new Bebop drone in March with a chassis that was lightweight and built with safety in mind, as the propellers immediately stops on collision.
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Parrot's Bebop 2 is a pretty easy to fly drone.
The camera's the same one that's in the Bebop 2.
Longtime turtle adversaries Bebop, Rocksteady and Armaggon also make appearances.
Whitney's drawings cite influences from Harlem Renaissance literature to bebop.
The other two drones are tweaked versions of the Bebop-Pro 3D, which provides aerial image capture for 3-D modeling, and the Bebop-Pro Thermal, which is equipped with a thermal imaging camera.
On top of that, Cowboy Bebop is notoriously hard to adapt.
We invested in Bebop, which sold to Google for $380 million.
Top five anime soundtracks… Go.Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Texhnolyze, Paranoia Agent.
People stopped singing and dancing to jazz; bebop supplanted the booty.
John Cho will lead Netflix's live-action version of 'Cowboy Bebop'
I never had either of these issues with the Bebop 2550.
East Coast bebop was more angular and staccato and emotionally volatile.
Your look is like Rocksteady or Bebop from the Ninja Turtles.
In 9th grade he introduced me to really heavy, really serious bebop.
The Bebop and Disco addresses different markets as they're fundamentally different drones.
Some nights, I'd take notes on a lesson about angular bebop patterns.
Watanabe did a similar thing with his retro designs on Cowboy Bebop.
Even though it doesn't fold up, the Bebop 2 is still considerably compact.
Google acquired Bebop, a startup focused on productivity and enterprise tools, in 2015.
Original "Cowboy Bebop" director Shinichirō Watanabe will also be involved as a consultant.
Additionally, Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe is acting as Black Lotus' creative producer.
Old string theory is to bebop as new string theory is to freeform.
Cowboy Bebop: Complete Series (Blu-Ray) for $19.99 at Amazon (list price $59.98).
They also together cofounded the cloud startup Bebop, which Google acquired in 2015.
The 212 Minton's Playhouse, the birthplace of bebop, still rules over 118th Street.
A DJI Inspire 1 and a Parrot Bebop both survived outings with me.
And to this day he often resorts to musical analogues: bebop, rhythm, syncopation.
The Bebop-Pro 3D will cost $1,100 and will be available in June.
Bebop and Rocksteady (whom you might remember from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon).
Through the mid-'803s, he was an adept bebop player with a spare style.
The Bebop 103 struggled to maintain its phone connection and often lost the signal.
Then bebop came along after World War II and fans had trouble keeping up.
Compare that to larger, pricier drones like Parrot Bebop or the Chroma camera drone.
No matter how much the future changes, Bebop showed us, people stay the same.
Jazz bebop inspired the prosody, rhythm, and improvisational techniques of much of Beat poetry.
While there, he apprenticed himself to Herbie Nichols, the iconoclastic bebop pianist and composer.
I tried to put the idea of New York bebop and Moroccan music together.
They brought with them a love of bebop and all new forms of jazz.
QUEEN OF BEBOP The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan By Elaine M. Hayes Illustrated.
As a teenager, he traveled to nightclubs in Manhattan and first heard bebop live.
The Bebop-Pro Thermo and Bluegrass are aimed at specific targets namely firefighters and farmers.
"Bebop found a home in the nightclub and eventually on the concert stage," DeVeaux says.
Netflix's live-action reboot of the anime Cowboy Bebop is lining up a stellar cast.
In every instance it was easy to connect, takeoff, and fly with the Bebop 5503.
"In the South, I'm considered an advanced bebop type," he told DownBeat magazine in 1958.
In the years since, Mr. McPherson has hardly strayed from the path of bebop conservationism.
Through it all, he finds a way to let his bebop-rooted saxophone improvisations shine.
JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH: Sometimes it's like a jazz bebop collaboration, where we feed off each other.
Were you, like many of us, looking forward to Netflix's live-action Cowboy Bebop show?
I don't watch a lot of [anime], but there's this one — Cowboy BeBop, it's so good!...
Greene was running a stealthy start-up called Bebop that she'd started a few years earlier.
The Bebop is almost the perfect starter drone: lightweight, low cost, and a good enough camera.
The original Bebop often disconnected from my phone when it was just a few feet away.
Find Out on This Map The 'Cowboy Bebop' Score Is Still the Coolest Anime Soundtrack Ever
The last of the three shorts is an animated short from Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe.
Charlie "Bird" Parker was leading the bebop revolution in clubs along 52nd Street and in Harlem.
He draws on older traditions as well as bebop: call and response, gospel, New Orleans, Chicago.
And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.
With a range of nearly three octaves, she relished big band, jazz, bebop, scat and swing.
Mr. Herring is a scampering, sunny-toned player who holds fast to a classic bebop approach.
William Yu, the creator of that meme tweeted Thursday: "COWBOY. BEBOP. STARRING. JOHN. CHO. LETS. GO."
First, it directly mirrors the final episode of Bebop and foreshadows how the series will end.
Cowboy Bebop was a show shaped by the culture—and the challenges—of the 20th century.
"He travels the solar system with his ex-cop partner, Jet, pursuing the future's most dangerous bounties with a combination of charm, charisma—and deadly Jeet Kune Do." For the uninitiated, Cowboy Bebop follows a crew of "cowboy" bounty hunters in a ship called, well, Bebop.
When Google bought bebop Technologies last fall for $348 million, it got more than a stealthy startup.
The streaming service announced last fall that it would be producing a live-action "Cowboy Bebop" series.
Netflix has announced a new live-action series based on the much-loved 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop.
The Bebop is Parrot's quadcopter drone and will now be available with 3D mapping software for $1,099.
It's priced and operates similar to other popular hobbyist drones like the DJI Spark or Parrot Bebop.
Williams was a brilliantly syncretic pianist whose self-possessed, physical style spanned swing, stride, gospel and bebop.
Well, for one, you might have to wait a little longer than expected for Netflix's Cowboy Bebop.
Although Vaughan had flowered through the language of bebop, it was just one feather in her plumage.
With Greene, Google also bought her newest company, Bebop, which makes a development platform for enterprise apps.
He wrote two books about bebop, the challenging form of modern jazz that emerged in the 1940s.
Buy for $899 The Parrot Bebop 2 provides a front row seat for some wicked sky-soaring adventures.
Buy for $550 The Parrot Bebop 16.13 provides a front row seat for some wicked sky-soaring adventures.
Both join Parrot's Professional range of drones that include the Disco-Pro AG and Bebop-Pro 3D Modeling.
Beyond Dragon Ball Z, Funimation's catalog includes 'Cowboy Bebop,' 'Once Piece,' 'My Hero Academia' and 'Attack on Titan.
Parrot's been making these minidrones for years, since well before it launched its flagship Bebop and Anafi drones.
Also, there's another Walking Dead spinoff on the way, and the Cowboy Bebop series is staffing up. Giddyup!
Named after a peerless alto saxophonist and bebop lodestar, the festival usually spotlights one of his former contemporaries.
Alphabet acquired Bebop in 2015, and at the same time named Greene as the head of Google's cloud.
Dissonant, complex, impossible to play, bebop was seductive and gorgeous in a cerebral way, and it defined cool.
Especially one with such good music — the poems in "Brown" dance through bebop and into James Brown's megafunk.
Evans, a daring Philadelphia pianist, is as deeply rooted in bebop tradition as he is versatile and incursive.
It feels edgy and improvisational, yet assured — just like the bebop jazz that Goldberg and other artists loved.
Pauses in the music brought shifts toward brief flurries of notes that sounded like descendants of bebop phrasing.
Mr. Trifonov may not have caught the echoes of bebop in passages where piano lines dart around nervously.
Most relevant is that Netflix is also producing a live-action adaptation of another foundational anime, Cowboy Bebop.
Far more important was the $380 million doled out for Bebop and Diane Greene, Google's new boss for enterprise.
An email address inside the product that references "Bebop," the name of Greene's startup that Google acquired in 2015.
And at $399, the Bebop 2 is half as much as the Mavic Air without being a complete toy.
However, unlike the two aforementioned DJI drones, the Bebop 2 only records at video at 1080p full HD resolution.
A live-action Cowboy Bebop TV show is in the works, as is one for Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Greene took over the position almost exactly three years ago when Google bought Bebop, the startup she was running.
Disco has the same 14-megapixel camera in the nose as the Bebop, with the same three-axis stabilization.
And adding the SkyController makes the Bebop 2 as expensive and bulky as a DJI Phantom or Yuneec Typhoon.
As soon as we'd finish that progressive bebop, he'd put on another record that would have an unbelievable groove.
The Bebop 2 Power costs $599 and for that you get the FPV goggles, the controller, and two batteries.
Here he performs a special selection of music honoring the coming 100th birthday of the bebop innovator Thelonious Monk.
Ms. Greene joined Google in 2015 when it acquired Bebop, a start-up she had founded, for $380 million.
Some of the first work on Hire happened at Bebop, a start-up where Greene was founder and CEO.
He designed angular thrusts suggesting the polyrhythms of bebop and jagged poses resembling the graphic slashes of modern art.
Dr. Harris's revered jazz workshop, surely the longest-running in New York City, is proof that bebop lives on.
This is a bebop jazz film that feels as if Riley made it while in an ecstatic religious state.
If DJI's drones are too pricey, or the controls still too intimidating, the Parrot Bebop 4993 is a solid choice.
In Paris, where many American expatriate jazz players were thriving, he apprenticed with the drummer and bebop pioneer Kenny Clarke.
His fund invested in Greene's last company, Bebop, which Google bought for $380 million in November principally to hire Greene.
And on several tracks with a brisk bebop cadence, the trio makes it clear that there's toughness beneath its cool.
It's a notable change from the company's last flagship drone, the Bebop 2, which didn't fold and weighed 500 grams.
An updated version of the drone, the Bebop 2, launched in late December with double the battery life for $22012.
On its own, without the optional remote control and Wi-Fi range extender, the Bebop is wonderfully compact and light.
One day after Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday, Mr. Barron pays tribute with a set of music by the bebop legend.
That song really defined the sound that I was interested in—Charlie Parker-esque bebop-jazz with a Moroccan orchestra.
Steeped in bebop, Ms. Jordan's singing is still limber and adventurous, but also marked by discretion, that increasingly elusive virtue.
Cowboy Bebop offers gorgeous noir-ish illustration, stylish fashion, thrilling action and suspenseful romance, all set to hip jazz soundtrack.
As bebop became the vanguard in the 1940s, Lion and his partner, Francis Wolff, kept their ears to the ground.
The collection illuminates a missing phase in Ms. Coltrane's remarkable musical journey from bebop to free jazz to New Age.
But if you want to watch Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe's new show Carole & Tuesday, your only option is Netflix.
They're not trying to create an army of mutant pig people like real-life versions of Bebop and Rocksteady, though.
In 2001, director Shinichirō Watanabe returned with a Cowboy Bebop film, set between the 22nd and 23rd episodes of the show.
Google Hire is under the purview of Bebop and its founder Diane Greene, who now runs Google's enterprise and cloud division.
Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe has a new project out today: an anime prequel to the upcoming movie Blade Runner 2049.
However, you might also remember Parrot and the big splash it made with its original Bebop drone a few years back.
Or rather, unfamiliar work, as Nick Creamer was introduced to both Cowboy Bebop and the music of Weezer thanks to AMVs.
Most notably, he's voiced Cell in Dragon Ball Z, Vicious in Cowboy Bebop, and M. Bison (Vega) in the Street Fightergames.
He claims to be like "Cowboy Bebop" when he's "blastin'" but clearly he should know that the character's name is Spike?
Marty Adelstein, the producer behind Prison Break, Hanna, and Made of Honor, is developing the Cowboy Bebop adaptation through Tomorrow Studios.
But as time wore on, many younger people, particularly musicians of the bebop generation, expressed misgivings about his genuflecting stage persona.
Parker, the saxophone bebop pioneer, still only 33, had been trying to shake off a bad stretch in his tumultuous career.
Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe ("Cowboy Bebop," which is available on Hulu), this very funny anime series is a constantly inventive delight.
Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe ("Cowboy Bebop," which is available on Hulu), this very funny anime series is a constantly inventive delight.
So practicing bebop and then going to see an almost anti-technical punk-rock band did not faze me at all.
Production on Netflix's upcoming series Cowboy Bebop has been halted after the show's leading actor John Cho was injured on set.
Jimmy moved to New York at 22, eventually landing a spot alongside his brother Percy in Gillespie's pioneering bebop big band.
Bernstein married emotional warmth to operatic bravura, and his capacious musical intelligence could synthesize Beethoven, bebop, mambo and Puerto Rican seis.
She had just launched into "Sheila's Blues," her signature tune, a half-spoken paean to the powers and infatuations of bebop.
At the time of its 1999 release in the United States, Cowboy Bebop had already aired and completely wrapped in Japan.
We recently named the Parrot Bebop 2 as one of the best consumer drones and it's currently on sale for $300 off.
The idea of a live-action Bebop is exciting, but Netflix's record with anime adaptations doesn't exactly bode well for this trailblazer.
For example, it is why Faulkner, de Kooning, Pollock, and bebop jazz were, all at the same time, breaking down linear structures.
The closest thing to an answer at this price point was the new Parrot Bebop 260, which you can get for $230.
He was a master musician, intelligent and resourceful, honored in all echelons of the jazz world, whether cabaret, bebop or avant-garde.
Notably, Hire was based on the technology Google acquired when it bought the startup Bebop in 2015 for a reported $380 million.
She studied the piano, mastering the classical repertoire as well as bebop, and she began touring and recording in her early twenties.
At Lincoln Center, he will perform a program dedicated to "Bird With Strings," the landmark album by the bebop forefather Charlie Parker.
Parker was arguably the greatest genius of the bebop era and indeed, one of the finest American musicians of the 20th century.
Basquiat was especially devoted to bebop, the restlessly inventive genre typified by the likes of Parker, Davis, Ornette Coleman and Thelonious Monk.
Hölzle originally recruited Greene to the job, which she accepted when Google acquired her previous start-up Bebop for $380 million in stock.
Set in a dystopian future in 2071, Cowboy Bebop imagines an Earth that has been long abandoned and humans who roam the stars.
Hire came into existence after Google acquired Bebop — a company started by VMWare founder Diane Greene — for a reported $380 million in 2015.
On Thursday, McAfee tweeted the words "McAfee 2020" written over a picture of Spike Spiegel, the main character from the anime Cowboy Bebop.
By the post-war era it had cracked the popular mainstream as swing, while simultaneously engaging intellectuals with the highbrow offshoot of bebop.
Lane was followed in later years by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, ragtime, the blues, jazz from New Orleans, swing, boogie-woogie and bebop.
The move was believed to be as much about bringing in Greene to lead its enterprise cloud effort as the bebop technology itself.
ONAGOfly doesn't generate its own Wi-Fi hotspot like the Bebop, but it has a lot of other features for a lot less.
Its blueprint-like first records, extending from bebop and Ellingtonian rhapsodies, swinging and atmospheric and mysterious and noisy, were made 60 years ago.
Mr. Hutcherson's career took flight in the early 22012s, as jazz was slipping free of the complex harmonic and rhythmic designs of bebop.
He switched to the cello, on which he became skilled enough to perform with his own group, David Baker's 21st Century Bebop Band.
Stage two, out on the streets of New York, dodging manhole covers on the way to a boss battle with the porcine Bebop.
The 1080p 14-megapixel camera at the front of the drone is the same one that Parrot used for its Bebop 2 quadcopter.
His latest release, "Sextet (Parker) 1993," is an 11-CD set collecting live performances of tunes associated with Charlie Parker, the bebop progenitor.
One can make an analog between Whitney's drawing process and bebop, with its rapid chord changes and improvisational outbreaks rooted in harmonic structures.
Mr. Allen's saxophone sound is often summed up as a cross between John Coltrane's pinched, melted-ore tone and Sonny Rollins's bebop bounce.
They were an ambitious foursome whose nervy vision of adolescence was every bit as high culture as it was keen on bebop accents.
While those bebop giants died many years ago, there are still a few top-flight artists around New York who worked with them.
But a younger cohort, steeped in the Beatles as well as bebop, was beginning to explore an approach that bridged the stylistic gap.
Yang's frequent use of cutting on the down beat, so to speak, gives the action a musical quality; the rhythms pop like bebop.
A tireless advocate for bebop and an unfailingly entertaining improviser, Harris has been a stalwart jazz pianist, organizer and educator since the 2212s.
When bebop was purchased by Google, I committed all of my proceeds to philanthropy, it is high time to put that money to work!
It's especially notable, though, for being an anime directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, best known for the critically acclaimed 1998 sci-fi series Cowboy Bebop.
Its dank aesthetic coursed through movies and shows like The Matrix, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, The Fifth Element, and the original Ghost in the Shell.
Greene has been a director since 2012, three years before Google acquired her software company, Bebop, and installed her to lead the cloud business.
Maybe Cowboy Bebop cause it was one of the first ones I heard but all of them have been influential in their own way.
You get a brief glimpse of Krang, a bit more about Bebop and Rocksteady's origin, and a split-second's worth of wisdom from Splinter.
She came on board last year when Google bought her startup, bebop Technologies for $103 million, and she immediately brought with her enterprise credibility.
But I'm at this point willing to hope it'll be fun in a dumb way, especially given the onscreen antics of Bebop and Rocksteady.
The result was like the improvisational art of the time — bebop, Abstract Expressionism, Kerouac's run-on narratives — with portraits that were about their making.
Pure gold in Paris after WWII, Bill Coleman's open horn proved mainstream muscle Could still outstrip the nervous, shuffling hustle Of New York bebop.
This annual engagement celebrates the birthday of Dizzy Gillespie, the co-inventor of bebop and a champion of Latin jazz, who died in 1993.
The bebop drummer Kenny Clarke led the pack by keeping a flexible, furiously paced, highly individualistic beat, probably on 17-inch Zildjian bounce cymbal.
The first episode of Carole & Tuesday — the new anime series from Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo director Shinichirō Watanabe — hits Netflix on August 30th.
Cowboy Bebop is a 10-episode live-action adaptation of the original anime series that also stars Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda and Alex Hassell.
The Epistles turned around bebop ideas, giving them a thumping, warm-toned sound that reflected South African musical heritage — and the fast-developing present.
It's said to be a ten-episode series from publisher Shueisha and Tomorrow Studios, the studio also working on Netflix's forthcoming Cowboy Bebop show.
Though thematically heavy, the songs on the album he released in May are plummy and pop-laden, full of orchestral flourishes and bebop trumpets.roughtradenyc.
Cowboy Bebop, one of the best known anime of all time, will be adapted into a live-action TV show from Tomorrow Studios, Variety reports.
A catalyst behind the transition from bebop to free jazz, he broadened the realm of possibility for his instrument, deeply influencing generations of improvising pianists.
She was my pal, or rather my guru, in Bebop times — she took me with her gang to listen to Pres, to Bird, to Dizzy.
At the end of November, Google announced it was buying bebop, a cloud platform startup founded by former VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene.
He was inspired by movies with impressive villainesses, like Kill Bill and Sin City, but also anime flicks like The Last Airbender and Cowboy Bebop.
Thelonious Sphere Monk was one of jazz's most influential musicians, known for such songs as "'Round Midnight," and helped develop the style known as bebop.
When I grew up I was into hip-hop, but did I go back and study bebop and the R&B groups who came before?
The turtles are really the best performers, save for goofball henchmen Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (Stephen Farrelly, better known as WWE wrestler Sheamus).
Before striking out on her own again with bebop, she was the CEO of VMware, where she oversaw deals like that company's acquisition by EMC.
Mr. Beasley is himself a mutable pianist and crafty arranger, and this album — like the first volume — carves up and dissects Monk's famous bebop melodies.
By 1975 the bebop tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon had spent a dozen years in Europe and was leading the house quartet at Copenhagen's Jazzhus Montmartre.
And then, thanks to some gales of circular breathing, he managed to thread one of those earlier, overblown harmonics atop the ongoing, bebop-influenced flurry.
It was here that James P. Johnson introduced the Charleston, the dance craze of the 19623s, and Thelonious Monk perfected his bebop style of jazz.
But she was always creating shows — weird, ambitious, inspired by reading and a curiosity that took her from bebop music to the theory of relativity.
He has the language of the classic bebop greats in his playing — Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins — but he likes to stretch his references past breaking.
Google bought Bebop for $380 million in 2015, and as part of the acquisition, Greene was brought in to be head of Google's cloud business.
After finishing the Epistles set, Mr. Ibrahim began the wafting original "Sotho Blue" on solo piano, a few bebop skitters giving way to impressionist arpeggios.
Ms. Akiyoshi and Mr. Harris, both N.E.A. Jazz Masters, are known for their personal approaches to the influence of the pioneering bebop pianist Bud Powell.
Parrot says it's made a multitude of improvements in the two years since the Bebop 2's launch, including a better connection system and upgraded camera.
YouTube channel Bebop graced the world with this stop motion Lego pizza video, and we may or may not be watching it for the 43rd time.
If Salvador Dalí grew up playing BioShock and watching Cowboy Bebop, he may have been as obsessed with "flesh-tech" and space pirates as Robbie Trevino.
The festival, run by the City Parks Foundation, celebrates Mr. Parker, an influential jazz artist known as the father of bebop and a consummate New Yorker.
That Cape Town-based sextet played bustling, American-style bebop, and in 1959 became the first black South African band to make a commercial jazz recording.
Like bebop and early rock 'n' roll, midcentury mambo and what would eventually become known as salsa will always bear the aspirational residue of their time.
Many of them could recall playing alongside the legendary trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who in the 1940s helped pioneer a fusion of Afro-Cuban music and bebop.
A counterculture idol brings his hepcat style to a new generation in Jake Broder's one-man tribute to a bebop comedian of the 1940s and '50s.
Mr. Tyner often spoke of the influence of Bud Powell, the bebop piano pioneer, whom he used to follow around as a young musician in Philadelphia.
In big-band jazz and bebop, a trumpeter was often responsible for adding a flare of percussive energy to the upper reaches of a group's sound.
Mr. Scott is not a collegiate-sounding trumpet player, and he plays with as much deference to New Orleanian and continental African traditions as to bebop.
It could be a sign of growth that Netflix brought on Watanabe to consult for Cowboy Bebop, and hired producers from the studio behind the original series.
You can velcro three rings of black cardboard to the top of a Parrot Bebop and call it a "Magic Air Cleaner," but you're not fooling anyone.
The horn player had pioneered bebop decades earlier, and by the 80s, he was leaning into his eminence by forming supergroups with talented players, blurring musical genres.
Then there's a Naruto film in preproduction at Lionsgate, and just last month, a Cowboy Bebop television series was reported to be in development at Tomorrow Studios.
I flew the Bebop 2 in three different locations: a park in New York City; a beach in Hammonasset, Connecticut; and a golf course in Fairfield, Connecticut.
IMDB ranks Cowboy Bebop as the greatest anime series of all time, and it consistently earns a spot in the top 20 of lists around the web.
At just 18, he played an integral role in the bebop revolution in the late 1940s, becoming the regular sideman for the art's brightest star, Charlie Parker.
An early enthusiastic Bebop jazz fan, his shredded, surreal drawing graces the cover of the Dial Records two-volume album be*bop JAZZ which opens the show.
Bebop, this new, modern jazz, was for small clubs like Minton's where nobody danced, and customers paid serious attention to the music, as they might to Bach.
He pried at the languages of bebop and stride and Romantic piano, breaking them open and refusing to suture them back together into any sort of hybrid.
For a few years in the 1950s, when bebop innovation was thick on the ground across the West Village, Café Bohemia was one of the central havens.
After touring with dance bands, he moved on to the fresher, more cosmopolitan bebop style, playing in groups led by the trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
Originally an alto saxophonist, he earned the nickname Little Bird for his ability to emulate the fleet playing of the bebop pioneer Charlie Parker, known as Bird.
It reached back and grabbed onto Coleman's own reference points: the chirruping bebop of Charlie Parker, Southern soul saxophone, the old Jewish prayer songs that he loved.
The trio played recognizable Bach melodies or pieces, like "Air on a G String" and the Prelude No. 1 in C, then took flight into bebop improvisations.
Being straight in this environment was akin to being a white bebop musician: I sometimes felt the odds were really against my being able to keep up.
Cowboy Bebop is perhaps the best-known anime of all time, and Watanabe has said previously that the original Blade Runner heavily influenced his work as a director.
By the end of high school, I was deep into Death Note, No Reservations, Cowboy Bebop, Good Eats, and both the American and Japanese versions of Iron Chef.
After originating from the streets and clubs of New Orleans in the late 1800s, the art form produced subgenres such as Dixieland, Afro-Cuban jazz, swing and bebop.
Bebop was cofounded by Diane Greene and its acquisition was seen as a way for the tech giant to bring Greene on-board to lead its Cloud division.
"Cowboy Bebop" follows a gang of futuristic bounty hunters in the year 2071 and is commonly cited as the series that unlocked anime's popularity in the United States.
He quit for an opportunity to join a radical group of young players in the Billy Eckstine Orchestra who were inventing a new music not yet called bebop.
There's also the flatulent, fat pairing of Bebop and Rocksteady — a mutant rhino and warthog duo whose friendship is one of the most endearing things about the film.
The next year he joined Abdullah Ibrahim (then known as Dollar Brand) and four other upstart instrumentalists in the Jazz Epistles, South Africa's first bebop band of note.
GENE OISHI Baltimore The writer is the author of a memoir, "In Search of Hiroshi," and a novel, "Fox Drum Bebop," both based on the Japanese-American incarceration.
Working with groups of various sizes — usually five to 4646 members — he united the influence of Duke Ellington's marbled orchestral sound with the sharp-elbowed dispatch of bebop.
Ira Gitler, who was one of the most respected and prolific jazz writers of the postwar era and an early champion of bebop, died on Saturday in Manhattan.
And there's more, including a follow-up to John Cameron Mitchell's musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Broadway diva Patti LuPone as a bebop-singing junkie nun.
Additionally, a selection of catalog titles, such as Cowboy Bebop, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, and PSYCHO-PASS from FunimationNow will be available on Crunchyroll beginning Thursday, and Free!
The same thing happens with Parrot's Bebop line of drones, and even with the DJI Mavic if you use it in Wi-Fi mode instead of the radio controller.
It's something that happens with all Wi-Fi-connected drones, and was a regular occurrence when I was flying the Solo from 3D Robotics and the Bebop from Parrot.
Chief among these is the announcement today that Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe would be helming a short anime prequel to the film with a score by Flying Lotus.
The company has long served the professional market, but this announcement repositions the Bebop and Disco drones as off-the-shelf solutions for 3D modeling, mapping and agricultural uses.
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To right this ship, Google brought in Diane Greene by acquiring her startup BeBop Technologies for $348 million last year and named her its VP of Google Cloud Enterprise.
"Pieces of Time," released a decade later, features Mr. Cyrille and Mr. Graves alongside Mr. Clarke, a bebop progenitor, and Famoudou Don Moye, of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
By taking on the persona of a jazz musician, caricaturing the bebop counterculture cool mastered by Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, Clinton was proving a point to the public.
In the nineteen-forties, the Cecil was famous for housing the jazz club where bebop was invented; now it's also known for Joseph (JJ) Johnson's "Afro-Asian-American" cooking.
The document also shows that Greene, a Google (and Alphabet) board member, exchanged over seven million Bebop shares for 200,729 Class C (non-voting) Alphabet shares worth $148.6 million.
Carole & Tuesday is the newest show from acclaimed director Shinichro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo), who is clearly leaning into his love of music, but not just in the story.
I did manage to get more range out of the Bebop 2 when using the optional $399 "SkyController," which is Parrot's delightful name for its traditional two-stick remote control.
When he was 15, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he discovered jazz and quickly began playing it, initially with a style derived from the bebop paragon Bud Powell.
Greene, meanwhile, became the CEO of Google's cloud business after Google acquired her company Bebop in 2015, a role she held for about three years before stepping down in January.
This color-block crossbody inspired by Cowboy Bebop, a 1998 Japanese anime television series set in 2071, is a convenient and fun way to hold your keys, wallet, and phone.
Ms. Carroll, who has been performing since the late 1940s, when she helped pioneer a spare, agile style of bebop, knows practically every jazz and popular standard in the repertory.
In the clubs of Los Angeles, Mr. McNeely heard and met bebop luminaries like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, who in the late 1940s appeared often on the West Coast.
Dexter Gordon, the lusty virtuoso of bebop saxophone probably best known now for his Oscar-nominated, starring performance in the movie "Round Midnight," embodied no fewer than four jazz clichés.
It's never hard to find jazz in New York City, where one night's worth of bookings can range from classic bebop to the most outré fringes of the avant-garde.
A straight-ahead jazz pianist of enormous grace and power, Chestnut invests in a broad reading of the black American piano tradition, pulling equally from stride, bebop and modern gospel.
" A teen-age girl blew up a bunch of balloons that spelled " PUSSY " to the tune of a jazz song from the beloved soundtrack of the anime series "Cowboy Bebop.
In live recordings from the club, like Monk's playful bebop classic "Nutty," recorded there in 2360, you can hear the tinkling of ice in cocktails and the hum of conversations.
She sings with a deep tone and the occasional chiming vibrato, and draws most of her tunes from jazz's standard repertoire: the Great American Songbook, blues classics and some bebop.
In more Blade Runner news, Sony Pictures Japan has released a teaser clip of a new anime based on the film that will be directed by Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe.
Jones was clearly drawn to particular genres at various points in his career, like when he trailed New York bebop musicians until they let him join their ranks in the 1940s.
Paul Bley, an obdurate and original pianist who began his career playing bebop and eventually became a major force in experimental jazz, died on Sunday at his home in Stuart, Fla.
With Greene on board to run things and the bebop team and technology in the fold, it should be interesting to watch how the Google enterprise cloud strategy evolves this year.
The Bebop features a 1080p video camera with built-in stabilization that captures motion at 20153 FPS, and captures 14 megapixel stills with the fisheye lens, and all for under $500.
Whether you want to bond with fellow Dallas Cowboys or Cowboy Bebop fans, there are groups in nearly every major city that can put you in the proximity of likeminded individuals.
His toasty sound owes a lot to Milt Jackson, the original pioneer of bebop vibraphone, but Mr. Nelson is also fond of opening up his playing and letting the vibes resound.
On "Nutty," he veers toward the traditional — intimating Monk's stride-piano technique by way of early ragtime guitar, then running through a rising sequence of diminished chords like a bebop guitarist.
Mr. Willis became a trusted accompanist for figures like the bebop-and-beyond saxophonist Jackie McLean, the South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela and the eclectic composer and arranger Carla Bley.
Netflix announced the show in 2018 after it had revealed news for its upcoming live-action version of Cowboy Bebop and its plans to bring Neon Genesis Evangelion to the platform.
Dungen's companion piece is a stunning odyssey of spaced-out rock instrumentals, kinetic bebop grooves and heavy guitar jams that would not sound out of place on a Pink Floyd album.
It's a rather small ensemble, but it has the attitude of a much larger one, playing rhythmic, chantlike tunes; up-tempo pieces that fuse bebop and Latin rhythms; and free improvisation.
And many feel that bebop — a genre that originated in the 227s, characterized by a fast tempo as well as chord changes that are equally quick and complex — died with them.
However, there are reasons to believe Netflix is learning how to not fuck up anime adaptations—just in time to make the Cowboy Bebop reboot as sick as it deserves to be.
A live-action version of the anime series "Cowboy Bebop" has been in and out of development for years, but it looks like Netflix is actually going to make it a reality.
From the jazz clubs he frequented he soaked up bebop, swing and a whole new universe of improvisation for the accordion, until he was playing for Django Reinhardt and with Stéphane Grappelli.
Lower-priced efforts like the $25 Parrot Bebop 24 feel like toys, while the $24,13 DJI Phantom 21 is too big and too expensive for a beginner drone pilot who craves portability.
The Bebop 2 drone with an NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU on board flits around the hole like a bee and then buzzes right through at 2 meters per second, a solid speed.
It also features ways to "lighten up" recipes, fun pizza facts and images of all of the famous TMNT characters, including Bebop and Rocksteady — and of course, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michaelangelo.
Unfortunately, in my testing, the Bebop 22 suffers from the same critical flaw as its predecessor: a very unreliable Wi-Fi connection that frequently drops, leaving your drone stranded in mid-air.
Besides their smooth jazz segments, WBGO's repertoire is always high-quality, like the bebop they play during the week and the warm soul music of Felix Hernandez's "Rhythm Revue" shows on Saturdays.
Bebop was about jam sessions and improvisation, and you never knew who would show up at Minton's; the musicians — Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young — were the celebrities.
They're wrapped for me in a web of nostalgia — for my youth and a disappearing New York — and melancholy, because the music, even the sharpest bebop, always seems inflected with the blues.
Axel had voice roles in the Spider-Man TV series, Digimon Adventure, and Cowboy Bebop, and one of his most recent appearances was in the comedy film The Clapper, starring Ed Helms.
Altair Logix LLC, a patent holding company registered in Texas, sued Parrot in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the firm's Bebop drones infringe its patent on a method of improving microprocessor performance.
Like the great jazz musicians who evolved out of bebop and moved to free jazz, and whose later work demands listening, Morrison's later novels are almost as enjoyable listened to as read.
Though the series ended on a  bit of a cliffhanger, it's unclear whether this new iteration will pick up where the crew of the Bebop left off, or introduce them all over again.
A Juilliard grad, he has unimpeachable bebop chops on the alto saxophone — but he embeds them in a personal brand of refined neo-soul (he refers to his sound as "future jazz soul").
He combined this with American bebop and the horn style he liked best: lazy phrasing and long notes to show off his fat, beautiful tone, singing and playing in much the same register.
The work borrows its aesthetic from early Nintendo games and anime shows like Cowboy Bebop, but set on a surreal island replete with dragons, tanks, cognac, and, of course, naked girls playing tennis.
For capturing images and video, the Bebop 22 takes a different approach than most drones: it uses a fisheye lens attached to the nose instead of an external camera mounted on a gimbal.
That unit has a Wi-Fi range extender on top, which let me fly the Bebop 2 out to roughly 550 meters with full control and only small hiccups in my video feed.
In the lead-up to the release of the highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049, a sneaky prequel has landed courtesy of Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe and experimental producer Flying Lotus, reports Pitchfork.
By age 24, I was moving from one musical obsession to the next: Swedish indie pop, to shoegaze and noise rock, to spiritual jazz and bebop, to nearly every corner of hip-hop.
Gillespie is known for helping to establish two important idioms that aren't always associated with large ensembles — bebop and Latin jazz — but he did much of his most impressive work with big bands.
Ms. Allen also used her academic background to explore the repertoire of Mary Lou Williams, a pioneering bebop pianist, and in 2006 released the album "Zodiac Suite: Revisited," reinterpreting Williams's most famous work.
South Africa's first known bebop band of black musicians, the Epistles became a flash sensation partly because they posited a connection between Africa's struggle for freedom and the urbane futurism of American jazz.
And the honest work continued for bebop sages like the pianist Barry Harris, who just turned 87, the singer Sheila Jordan, 20163, and the saxophonist Jimmy Heath, who celebrated 90 in the fall.
With an increasingly American police state, where elections are hacked, and cities that have red or blue political leanings might literally be worlds apart, Cowboy Bebop isn't just a landmark series in 20713.
"Toys in the Attic," where a mysterious life form infiltrates the Bebop and begins incapacitating the crew, plays out as a cross between space alien and survival horror films like Alien and Predator.
Although Mr. Ratliff announces early on that he'll refrain from using genre language wherever possible, in practice he nearly always identifies music using those tags: as bebop, happy hard-core, flamenco, dark ambient, nyabinghi.
Cowboy Bebop originally aired in 1998 in Japan as a 26-episode series, though its late night run on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim in 2001 helped buoy it to success in the United States.
The form factor of the DJI Spark is also reminiscent of the Parrot Bebop, which has been on the market for about three years, and the ZeroTech Dobby, which fits in your back pocket.
"The music that I deal with has elements of bebop to ballad, swing to sweet, blues to boogie, and pop to rock," Mr. Blythe told the musician and oral historian Ben Sidran in 1986.
Those who may be skeptical of a live-action remake can rest a little easier knowing that Shinichiro Watanabe, the director of the original Cowboy Bebop, will serve as a consultant on the Netflix series.
They've partnered with Midnight Radio, led by Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Alias, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles producer Josh Appelbaum, and Sunrise, the studio behind the original studio Cowboy Bebop series, who will executive produce.
Backing himself at the piano, he favored a loose call and response between voice and instrument, or between right and left hands, often taking tangents informed by the complex harmonies and rhythmic feints of bebop.
Some of the earliest work that went into Google Hire took place at Bebop, a start-up founded by Alphabet board member and VMware co-founder Diane Greene, Google vice president Dmitri Krakovsky told CNBC.
He's making an obvious, partway-arch reference to the old dichotomy between the more bebop-oriented method associated with clubs in Midtown and Harlem, and the formally experimental, Western classical-influenced approach of "downtown" players.
It's possible that his reputation, as it has risen in the decades since, has also suffered, in the way that Dizzy Gillespie's did in comparison with that of his doomed fellow bebop pioneer Charlie Parker.
It's lovely, rampant and soaring, bringing together sharp Carnatic adroitness, tartly doleful harmonies fit for an English ballad, prog-rock muscle, bebop slipperiness, and — here and there — the blown dust of a Gustavo Santoalalla soundtrack.
Drawing equally upon the influences of Art Tatum's stride piano and Bud Powell's bebop flights, he plays with sensitivity at hyperspeed and demonstrates an almost intuitive understanding of what it takes to please a crowd.
Bebop, no-wave and beat poetry blend in the music of the Jazz Passengers, whose founders, the trombonist Curtis Fowlkes and the saxophonist Roy Nathanson, first worked together in the Big Apple Circus's pit band.
He learned at the elbow of Ellis Marsalis, New Orleans's great bebop patriarch, and for nearly 25 years he's been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by Mr. Marsalis's son Wynton.
Netflix has enlisted Dai Sato, who helped write the bedrock anime series Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, to weave a tale that "will explore new elements of the story mythology," according to a press release.
But few scenarios are so revealing about Cowboy Bebop as that pilot episode, "Asteroid Blues," wherein Spike and Jet pursue a couple on the lam after stealing a cache of drugs from a crime syndicate.
Whether stoking chemistry between bebop musicians and hip-hop artists, or coaxing a shy Michael Jackson out of his shell, Jones perfected the art of setting musicians up for success, then letting nature take its course.
While it'd be untrue to say I wasn't already privy to music from anime— "Bindy" from Cowboy Bebop, "Days" from Eureka Seven (greatest opening of all time, fight me)—none hit me as uniquely as this.
This year has seen Lil Yachty alone rap over the Super Mario 64 file select theme as well as music from Cowboy Bebop and Undertale (!!!), so it's not like hip-hop has anything against bizarre samples.
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As a pianist, Mr. Abrams could spontaneously weave references to historical jazz styles — including ragtime, stride piano, the compositions of Duke Ellington, swing and bebop — together with his own fleet modernism, far-reaching harmonies and dissonance.
She oversaw a "family tree" — intended as a suggestion, not a canon — of music: from unrecorded African-American music through work songs, spirituals, blues, jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, hip-hop and onward.
A vocalist of smooth and brawny tone who doubles on guitar, Mr. Harris recently put out a new album paying tribute to Eddie Jefferson, a midcentury vocalist best known for writing words to famous bebop compositions.
Mr. Severson's "Surf BeBop," a semiabstract painting of surfers lounging on a beach, which appeared on a 1963 cover of Surfer, was cited by Communication Arts magazine as the most outstanding cover painting of the year.
This recording has lots of lateral range: There's gospel-tinged balladry, standard-issue bebop and smart reworkings of mid-1960s Wayne Shorter classics (he covers "Mahjong" and laces a new melody into the structure of "Nefertiti").
But the story of Mr. Tyner, who died on Friday, is also the story of a bandleader and composer whose granite style remained intact even as he tracked the music's developments, from bebop into free jazz.
Cowboy Bebop is one of the coolest, most prescient, best-soundtracked anime of all time—certainly the cream of the 90s anime crop—and, in my experience, it's the best show for getting newbies into Japanese cartoons.
Parrot, the French company that is probably best known for its AR.Drone and Bebop drones, today announced the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for helping drones and robots navigate indoors, avoid obstacles and map its surroundings.
One of the most original American composers of the last hundred years — with experience in the classical tradition, funk, marches, mariachi, pre- and post-bebop jazz, and gospel — Mr. Threadgill reliably keeps his feet on the ground.
On his earliest recordings, in the mid-21926s for the Riverside label, Mr. Weston almost fit the profile of a standard bebop musician: He recorded jazz standards and galloping original tunes in a typical small-group format.
Boasting a style that was blustery and agitated yet deeply in command — as influenced by the early-bebop saxophonist Don Byas as by the free-jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman — he became an emblem of his musical era.
But Mr. Heath, who is a remarkable composer and arranger, has led big bands at various points throughout his career, starting in the 1940s, when he led a large bebop ensemble that featured a young John Coltrane.
Opening in September, the curators of the exhibition have partnered with the Basquiat family to unearth a bevy of miscellaneous influences that fueled Jean-Michel Basquiat's creative prowess, from anatomical drawings, to bebop jazz, to silent films.
It's been almost two long decades since the anime adventures of Spike and his crew garnered a cult following for Cowboy Bebop, a sci-fi western telling the tales of a starbound bounty hunter and his misfit crew.
His industry-wide prominence positioned him perfectly to realize his vision of cross-genre collaboration, like the famous 1985 fundraising track "We Are the World," or Jones's hip-hop/bebop fusion record Back on the Block from 1989.
Adelstein and the yet-to-be-announced director might be best served by looking to Joss Whedon's Firefly, which is often compared to Cowboy Bebop for its space western, used-future aesthetic, its lovable antiheroes, and its wit.
In 1956, he joined Cecil Taylor, a young pianist and composer intent on disrupting the fixed linguistics of bebop and hard-bop; Mr. Taylor's innovations in this period helped establish the avant-garde form known as free jazz.
It was there that he met the drummer Edison Machado and the bassist Sérgio Barrozo, and they formed the Rio 21941 Trio, recording two albums in samba-jazz, which melded the improvisational energy of bebop with Brazilian rhythms.
The generation of Count Basie (seated on the curb) and Duke Ellington (not present) was yielding to the newer bebop players, who in turn were starting to be challenged by the next wave, not seen in this shot.
Bebo Valdés and Chico O'Farrill were two of the most influential Cuban jazz musicians of the mid-20th century — Mr. Valdés for his sumptuous orchestral works, and Mr. O'Farrill for his fusions of bebop and Afro-Cuban music.
More recently, Cho was tagged to helm a motley crew of bounty hunters as Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop," the coming Netflix live-action spin on the space Western anime in which he'll flex some martial-arts skills.
After a self-administered tazering to destroy his sense of sentence structure, Colbert launched into a perfect imitation of Palin's bebop cadence: "Greetings and welcomes to all across America, you go-getters and toe-tappers, you motor-city madmen..." 
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" In his 1999 memoir, "Stopping Time," he remembered that "it didn't take more than a second to understand that this was the missing link between playing totally free, without any givens, and playing bebop with changes and steady time.
In November, the streaming service announced that it was creating a live-action version of Cowboy Bebop, new shows set in the worlds of Pacific Rim and Altered Carbon, and that it was bringing Neon Genesis Evangelion to subscribers.
Other influential anime series like Revolutionary Girl Utena and Serial Experiments Lain feel directly influenced by Eva, while many others, like Cowboy Bebop, feel like evolutionary steps forward in the sandbox that Eva built for creators to play in.
The new Bebop has done a nice job improving the quality of video when you are panned straight down to the ground, a viewpoint that is unique to aerial filming and can produce some magical results over interesting terrain.
His work, including "gateway anime" Cowboy Bebop, is among a class of 1980s and 90s cyberpunk anime that has long been compared to Blade Runner for its bleak urban setting and fixation on the difficult questions technology presents humanity.
US Coast Guard Housing Complex Rio Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Jorge Lubo, July 5, 2015; $1,100Lubo apparently flew his Parrot Bebop drone in the housing complex two separate times and was warned by the FAA about flying his drone there.
Jazz Bebo Valdés and Chico O'Farrill were two of the most influential Cuban jazz musicians of the mid-20th century — Mr. Valdés for his sumptuous orchestral works, and Mr. O'Farrill for his fusions of bebop and Afro-Cuban music.
Greene, who took over the business three years ago when Google acquired her software company, Bebop, wrote a blog post on Friday announcing that Kurian would be joining the company this month and taking over the top spot in early 2019.
But like the Bebop, it also relies on Wi-Fi for its live stream, meaning you probably won't get a very crisp picture, and your signal will often drop when you're more than a couple hundred meters away from the aircraft.
Cowboy Bebop, a cult-classic space western regarded on the nerd internet as the perfect gateway anime, is being made into a live action movie, Deadline reports, and all we can say is please, Hollywood, please don't fuck this up.
The Minidrone line serves as a good entry point for people looking to get into the hobby, with their smaller, cheaper, and more toy-like designs versus larger and more expensive models like Parrot's full-size Bebop 2 and Disco aircraft.
Opened by the saxophone player Henry Minton in 1938, as part of the Cecil Hotel — now its sister restaurant — on 118th Street, this is where bebop (call it modern jazz) was born and the musical world swung off its axis.
Birthplace of the jazz soloist Charlie Parker Jr., Kansas City, Mo., earned the nation's first City of Music title, based on its history of jazz, especially bebop and swing, and the influence those styles had on musicians at home and abroad.
On the audio of the tape itself, you can hear him announcing the tunes like a radio D.J. After that tape plays, Armstrong introduces another: a bootleg recording of a jam session at Minton's, the venue where bebop was born.
A proud apostle of the midcentury jazz culture that raised him, the 88-year-old Mr. Harris still leads a weekly bebop workshop, passing on lessons that came to him in the bands of Cannonball Adderley, Max Roach and Coleman Hawkins.
In "Bowie, Bach and Bebop: How Music Powered Basquiat," Ekow Eshun writes: In 24, at 25, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat moved into an abandoned apartment on East 83th Street in Manhattan with his girlfriend at the time, Alexis Adler.
On its first track, featuring a guest appearance from the guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, he cuts a trench between the glass-darkly funk of M-BASE, the layered fusion of Wayne Shorter's "Joy Ryder" and the jagged melodicism of classic bebop.
And then, yesterday, I got around to watching the short films (including one by Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe) dropped, and while none of them are fantastic, each proved to me that there was space to tell more stories in this world.
Please, God, yes, let it live: I still love you, Robert De Niro in that one Godfather 2: Electric Boogaloo scene where you're wearing a henley, Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop, every single one of my friends, and Point Break (the whole movie).
But Miles's contributions to the bebop movement both onstage and off were invaluable to spreading the art outside of New York City, where white audiences often treated it with the same fear and disdain that gangster rap was treated in the 1980s.
"Astro": The Jetsons "Dog": Max Max 2 "Frank the Pug": Men in Black "Ein": Cowboy Bebop "Spike"/dog xenomorph: Alien 3 In one version of Alien 3, a rottweiler named Spike is impregnated by a facehugger that's stowed away on the USS Sulaco.
For a long time, the large ensemble has seemed a clunky vestige of American music's past — outmoded since bebop supplanted swing in the 1950s — but a bumper crop of enterprising, conservatory-trained composers sees it differently: as a vessel of grandiose possibility.
Mr. Masekela came to the forefront of his country's music scene in the 1950s, when he became a pioneer of South African jazz as a member of the Jazz Epistles, a bebop sextet that included the pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and other future stars.
Soft power has opened space for Japanese cinema in the hearts and minds of Americans — more and more Americans congregate around cult favorites like Cowboy Bebop and Satoshi Kon films with each passing year — but the live-action film industry continues to struggle.
In Washington, under the direction of the pianist Jason Moran, the Kennedy Center now books classic jazz heroes like Ron Carter alongside the rapper Q-Tip and the electric trio Harriet Tubman, whose improvised music sounds more like bluesy doom metal than bebop.
There are many drones to pick from between those two ends of the specturm, such as the Parrot Bebop, but we'd advise going for a basic model for a couple of hundred dollars less or a high-end model for about a thousand dollars more.
Here, the turtles, with some help from April O'Neil (Megan Fox) and newcomer Casey Jones (Stephen Amell), face off against TV show mainstays Bebop and Rocksteady, with the notion that maybe (just maybe) they can become human if they expose themselves to enough ooze.
Hayes calls Vaughan "the first vocalist to introduce bebop singing to the world"; but that crown is better worn by Fitzgerald, who released her first bop single through a major company, Decca, in 1945, when Vaughan was recording for tiny New York jazz labels.
Embracing everything from peppy minimalist bebop (she was one of the first female musicians to master that harmonically sophisticated brand of jazz) to Gershwin to a lush Debussy-influenced impressionism, she never forsook her jazz roots, and she maintained a strong attachment to the blues.
" When interviewed about why the 2001 Bebop film, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, has an "Arabesque" atmosphere in the imagery and the music, he replied that "I had more of a flavor, or gut instinct if you like […] I just felt this piece should be Arabic.
Naturally, users that devote a significant amount of their life to the once-obscure medium that produced crossover hits like postmodern sci-fi pioneer Ghost in the Shell and jazzy genre melting pot Cowboy Bebop garner a certain amount of respect on the site, within reason.
Fruits Basket: The Complete Series — $45 (list price $69.98) See Details From the critically-acclaimed creator of Cowboy Bebop — a show known for its cool characters and exploration of existentialism and loneliness — comes a show about a douchey space pervert and his ragtag team of space idiots.
A few months after Netflix announced it was making a live-action version of Cowboy Bebop (for better or worse), the streaming service put out the first of its cast list—and from the looks of this thing, the show's shaping up to be pretty rad.
Few living drummers know the plush interior of a solid swing feel better — or are more adept at the wheel of a bebop combo — than the 94-year-old Haynes, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and an unimpeachable authority on classic jazz drumming.
The musical legacy of Sugar Hill is most connected to the jazz and bebop traditions that emerged and flourished there around the 1930s and 1940s, according to the Sugar Hill Children's Museum website, which adds that the tradition lives on in groups like the Sugarhill Gang.
"He was clearly kind of like an early Charlie Parker in the history of bebop tourism," said Mr. Levitch, who touched upon the architecture and history of the terminal and other nearby spots, but seemed more intent on redefining rush hour as something other than an unpleasant march.
As a trumpeter, Mr. Scott is the rare musician who has defined a personal solution to one of jazz's biggest challenges these days: how to make sure solos stay engaging now that the swinging rhythms and swift chord changes of traditional bebop have largely given way to simmering grooves.
Ira Sabin, a bebop drummer who in 21995 started what became JazzTimes magazine, one of the world's leading jazz publications, as a four-page newspaper to promote new releases at his record store in Washington, died on Wednesday at an assisted living facility in Rockville, Md. He was 22009.
The best heroes and villain pairs throughout history have all shared some kind of strange rapport: Batman and the Joker understood each other better than anyone else could, Captain Hook was basically Peter Pan's surrogate father, only the Ninja Turtles truly knew the pain and sadness of Bebop and Rocksteady.
And just in the last couple of weeks, more deaths of towering figures: the melancholy poet Leonard Cohen, in the throes of a late-life creative surge; the revered songwriter and session player Leon Russell; and Mose Allison, a hybridizer of bebop and blues with a wicked streak in his lyrics.
Rather than harking back to the classic swing era or the progressive large-ensemble composers of the late 112th century, this 211-piece group picks up on a lesser-touted aspect of the jazz tradition: the bebop big bands led by Jimmy Heath and Dizzy Gillespie in the 216s and '224s.
Through Saturday, he will celebrate the life and legacy of Dizzy Gillespie (the trumpeter for whom the club is named) with "Dizzy Spellz," a program he wrote with the dancer and vocalist Brinae Ali that addresses how this bebop pioneer interacted with the cultural and spiritual questions of his time.
For a lot of music fans, the visual identity of jazz has become synonymous with a single record label that defined the sound and feeling of the musical style during its transformation from the complicated melodies of bebop to the soulful hooks of hard bop during the 1950s and '60s.
During his short career (Thompson died of a heroin overdose in 1967, at the age of 29), Thompson painted more than 1,000 canvases of scenes populated with figures of all hues that were deeply influenced by Renaissance and Baroque painting and the 1950s movement of post-Beatnik and bebop-inflicted Abstract Expressionism.
Pretty much everything about the restaurant is a testament to Mr. Kinch's love of New Orleans: The walls are decorated with photos and paintings from his collection, while the music — a mix of New Orleans soul funk and traditional jazz, retro R&B, brass band and bebop — is pulled from the soundtrack of his youth.
That summer she sang with Mr. Clinton and his orchestra at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, N.Y. "The impeccable Wain never fails to captivate us as Clinton's brassmen play natty little curlicues around her," Will Friedwald wrote in his book "Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices From Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond" (21980).
Their looser, more kinetic and improvisational rhythms drawn from black vernacular speech and the ebb and flow of consciousness itself — "Mind is bebop" was a Ginsberg epigram — led directly to Kerouac's invention of "spontaneous prose," an explosively lyrical style of anarchic simultaneity that in turn, as Ginsberg always acknowledged, made his own outbreak into originality possible.
It's a somewhat obscure release, but also a pioneering one: Ové's was the first feature by a black filmmaker made in the UK. Switch the channel and there's an episode of the sci-fi anime Cowboy Bebop on; a few clicks past that, Janet Jackson's 1998 Velvet Rope Tour performance at Madison Square Garden is playing.
At the Whitney Museum of American Art last week, Jason Moran and his Bandwagon trio had been playing for about 219 minutes inside a replica of the stage at the Three Deuces, a bebop club from 21s New York, when he suddenly got up from the piano and snaked through the crowd assembled inside the museum's eighth-floor gallery.
Adult Swim specialized in toothsome, twilit grooves for its bumpers and commercials, and they also engineered the crossover success of the zonked-savant rapper MF Doom, (if there is one shared touchstone for lo-fi hip-hop, it's probably Madvillainy.) Toonami, on the other hand, brought Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo to a western audience for the first time, with their incredible merengue-tinged soundtracks intact.
The sound of these tracks reflects a group of musicians grounded in Detroit's sturdy bebop tradition — with a big, elastic swing feel undergirding some of the tunes, and dashing solos from the group's members throughout — but also adept at sculpting lush horn arrangements or incorporating propellant African drums and radical poetry (recited on two tracks by Mbiyu Chui, the pastor at the Shrine of the Black Madonna).
The foreign influences pop out here and there (they probably account for the exotic shifting rhythms and colliding harmonies), but what binds the music and makes it more than an intellectual exercise is its rootedness in jazz idioms — and Mr. Coleman's tone on alto sax, reminiscent of Parker's piercing sweetness but swept across a broader canvas than anyone in the bebop era, even its master, could have imagined.

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