Bop v. Swing

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Lawrence · #31 Post by **Lawrence** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:23 pm

sonofvu wrote:Interesting. Now I want to go off and look into bop.

I never appreciated bop or fast post-bop until a few years after I had obsessively collected and listened to Swing Era music.

julius · #32 Post by **julius** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:31 am

That's interesting. Same here. I bought a Charlie Parker album in college but thought it made no sense whatsoever. After I got into swing music I took another listen and thought "hmm, this is not bad."

GemZombie · #33 Post by **GemZombie** » Sat May 01, 2004 6:11 pm

I was raised on Swing, Bop and Jazz due to my Jazz Director's choices for our band. I found his swing selections to be boring, with no energy (Neal Hefti sucks). I really liked Bop for what it was, but i really didn't care for it. I appreciated it for it's technicality and creativity, but that's as far as it goes. It wasn't until later when i started listening to classic swing that I realized that's what I had been missing. The energy, and sometime simplicity of it all.

To this day I'm not really a bop fan, but i'll listen to it and and enjoy it when it's on.