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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Bebop

Composer of the Week: Bebop: Episode 5

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Bebop

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Bebop, Episode 5

Donald Macleod looks at the musicians who emerged from the bebop mode.

Donald Macleod and Geoffrey Smith look at the musicians who emerged from bebop, including John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dophy and Sonny Rollins.

Bebop! It's a rather silly word for a crucial chapter in jazz history. It didn't just come out of nowhere but evolved, fizzed and bubbled into existence in the USA in the early 1940s, as a result of a gloriously rich and complex musical chemistry involving different combinations of musicians, styles and places. All week, Donald Macleod and his special guest, the writer and broadcaster Geoffrey Smith, have some serious fun investigating this amazing musical phenomenon.

To conclude the week they take a look beyond Bebop and explore the various shoots that have sprouted from the original stem, in the hands of such musicians as John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Wynton Marsalis and finally Sonny Rollins, who brings us into the 21st century with his take on the Jerome Kern standard, 'Why Was I Born' - a live concert recording made in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

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Donald Macleod and special guest Geoffrey Smith explore the jazz mode of bebop

Donald Macleod is joined by writer and broadcaster Geoffrey Smith to explore the jazz mode of bebop. It emerged in the 1940s, out of different combinations of musicians, styles and places

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