[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bop" (Music)

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The Billboard, March 22 1947
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fEUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT76&dq=jazz+bop&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6g_TWx-SLAxXfXEEAHS1iMxA4ChC7BXoECA8QBw#v=onepage&q=jazz%20bop&f=false

Trumpet Man, name band experience, well schooled. Bop, jazz, and split 
lead ....

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The Billboard, 2 August 1947
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xgwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT39&dq=jazz+bop&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQnZflw-SLAxUgU0EAHQ8TE-UQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=jazz%20bop&f=false

"both smacking very much of the bop"
"one of the key bop boosters"

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The Musical Digest
Date uncertain, possibly 1947.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Musical_Digest/5EVnYkP3apIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=jazz+bop&dq=jazz+bop&printsec=frontcover

"A jazz fiend I sought out told me that Bop consisted of harmonic 
improvisation..."


------ Original Message ------
From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 24/02/2025 17:15:43
Subject Antedating of "Bop" (Music)

>bop (OED, bop n.2, 1948)
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>1947 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8 Oct. 40/4 (ProQuest)  MERCER ELLINGTON, Duke's son, comes up with one of the best big-band bop sides of the year.
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>1947 Niles (Mich.) Daily Star 9 Dec. 4/3 (Newspapers.com) This is the type of music known variously to jazz addicts as "be-bop," "re-bop" or just plain "bop."
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>Fred Shapiro
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