Attitude Comparison of Jazz Musicians Bebop arose after the decline of the swing era. During this rise, musicians wanted to draw jazz away from the mainstream (popular) music of the time. The purpose of Bop was to take jazz back to an art form. Bop bands were usually small, had complex harmonies, and used improvisation, and the bands were usually made up of African Americans. The music from the Bop era is considered to be a hot style. The audience of the Bop subgenre is usually an elite/selected group of people. The relation between the audience and the band is simple; bop is complex music for the complex mind. Bop brought jazz back to its Dixieland roots. Cool jazz was a style that was made with European facets. Cool was typically based on classical styles of music, and it was also written out. Although Cool jazz artists based their music on a restrained tempo, dynamic range, and tones, vibrato was the main influence of Cool music, which gave variations in the pitch of the instruments sound. Whereas Bop bands usually fascinated their select audience with a sporadic and hot style, Cool bands played more “cool” sounding tunes. The goal …show more content…
Initially, Hard Bop was created as a rebellion to the Cool jazz era. Whites had controlled the mainstream music with Cool jazz. Hard Bop artists wanted to take the flame away from the Cool jazz artists, and establish another outlet for African American jazz musicians. With that being said, Hard Bop was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s. Like Bop, Hard Bop wanted to take jazz back to its roots, as far as improvisation goes. However, Hard Bop created Funky Jazz within its own creation, and also made its way to mainstream music due to the tribulations happening during the 50’s. The Hard Bop bands prospered with their audience because of the Civil Rights Movement, and Hard Bop created an outlet in the mainstream for African American influenced jazz