bebopper

Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz.

I thought he might pick Stravinsky, the bebopper's idol.

Hewitt was a bebopper and a ballad player who was exceptionally talented, if lacking sufficient originality to make people forget the competition.

And the bebopper Savion Glover, possibly the most skilled tap dancer who ever lived, returns for a three-week season (June 21-July 9).

Jazz musicians should never be read by their covers: inside every musician who seems a hardcore bebopper or avant-gardist or whatever, there are dozens of interests at play.

Mr. Donaldson is the embodiment of Down Home sophistication, a second-nature bebopper who has preferred to stick with the structure of the blues for 40 years.

He projected the primal exuberance of a field holler and the sophistication of a bebopper; he could conjure exaltation, sorrow and determination within a single phrase.

He maintains the laconic speech patterns of the '50s bebopper, Soho phrasing overlaid on North London, wandering around and off the point, all short phrases and repetitions.

The saxophonist Tony Dagradi, the bassist Ramsey McLean, saxophone bebopper Al Belletto and the pianists David Torkanowsky and Harry Connick Jr. often perform here.

Bebopper and saxophonist extraordinaire, and veteran (since the 1950's) of the West Coast jazz scene, Mr. Morgan gives his music a bit more tenderness and reflection than his New York counterparts do.

Mr. Konitz, in his eighth decade, is an inveterate duet player, having improvised against everyone from the witty French bebopper Martial Solal to the squalling Japanese electric guitarist Keiji Haino.

'Stairway to the Stars' is almost as fine, and the thoughtful 'The Goof and I' and 'Susie's Blues' show that Chaloff still had plenty of ideas about what could be done with a bebopper's basic materials.

Mr. Patton, a fluid young bebopper who plays in the Heath Brothers band, will perform duets with the bassist Percy Heath, he of the melodic lines, beautifully economical swing and a tone to die for.

Vocally, Mr. Stigers, who is appearing at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street) through Feb. 8, suggests an emotionally chafed hybrid of Elvis Costello and the bebopper Mark Murphy.

(Chinen) JAMES MOODY QUARTET (Thursday) Like his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, the saxophonist James Moody is a stalwart bebopper and one of jazz's most ebullient entertainers.

These are beautiful recordings, mostly quartets, with one Latin-jazz album and two large-band sessions (one of them arranged by Quincy Jones); say what you will about Stitt's secondhand vocabulary, but he was a superb ballad player and an amazingly hot, as well as refined, bebopper.

He was a musician of paradox, a bebopper who came up with the generation of Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon but made his name, in the nineteen-fifties, as a soloist, composer, and arranger with Count Basie's reconstituted band, which he led, decades later, after Basie's death.

Mr. Lindner is a young, no-nonsense bebopper who has been getting more and more into Latin music and different sorts of fusion through the years; back in his band, for this weekend anyway, is the excellent bassist Omer Avital, who left the New York scene a few years ago to return to Israel.