Jazz was an avenue for African-American psychic/intellectual expression that didn't need anyone else's permission to exist. It was and continues to be undeniable.

Beautiful job on this Caira! My dad had stacks of jazz records including 78rpm discs of Charlie Parker with Strings and Dizzy Gillespie doing Oop Bop Sh’bam - and many more. I grew up with those great sounds all around me.

wow, this was great! thanks for your wonderful documentry Caira!

What an incongruity...on any Bebop history (and this is a GOOD one!!)...you still have to listen to IN THE MOOD....JA JA JA

Dizzy!!!! 😍 I love jazz so much...it is one of my favorite inspirational genres. 🎶

Eddie Jefferson's Trane's Blues gives a nice recap of the evolution from his perspective.

Awesome. Thanks so much for this.

This is great -- my students will love it; thank you!

This is what i was looking for! Excellent!

I love her voice I've seen portions of this myself.

When I was 14 yrs. old, my stepfather gave me a Jazz at the Philharmonic recording. It was ok until Charlie Parker started to play and I said to myself, that's the music I want to play and I did for the next 60 yrs.

You did a marvelous job on this documentary! Respect!

This is excellent, and exactly what I need to introduce my San Francisco State University class to Bebop so they better understand its influence in Allen Ginsberg's poem, Howl, and in relation to that generation as a whole. Thank you!

Thank you for making this brilliant film!

Good work! I was looking for an explanation of bebop in less than ten minutes. Thanks!

If anyone wants to learn this music, Don't look into books, listen to the music!. Find a software or recorder to slow it down and just play the lines try to find the chords over which the lines are played over! It is very difficult stuff but there's a logic to it:) if you listen to it for a long time you'll notice a logic, this same logic is what it enables the music to sound different always:) and of course experimentation, which is i think the most important thing;) every musician you see wailing, Is mainly due to his extremely use of time immerse in experimentation:)

Thank you I love this, always had a natural love for jazz & this warms my heart.

Wonderful doc, seeking to learn more about jazz, this was incredibly enlightening

Awesomeness, Thanks Caira

Great video! Thank you for making and sharing…

thank you, Ive been loving bebop for so long and I now love it even more knowing the story behind it. It still is so fresh and alive one of the best responses humans ever had to our limitations. the closest we'll ever come to defying gravity. Thank you to all the great musicians

Thank you, for sharing,,,excellent work!

This is a great video! Well done!!

This is wonderful!!

Excellent video.

great stuff!

Good film, it helps with the class I am taking now.

well done film,

Well Done!! Very Informative

Amazing Doc.

Very very nice work !

Very well done video!

1946: "This is the sort of bad taste and ill advised fanaticism that has thrown innumerable impressionable young musicians out of stride." 2019: Jazz improvisation is a requirement to graduate a prestigious music school with a degree in jazz studies. Actually 2010 when this was published but you get the idea. Great little mini documentary. Thanks and kudos. I enjoyed it very much.

This is a wonderful video! Thank you! Is there any way to upload another version that has louder volume?

0:20/0:50/2:20/2:45/3:45/5:00/5:10/5:24/6:30/8:45

Loved this video. Thanks.

Good job!

This is so useful to help me with my work, I hope you don't mind me using some of the info and references you used for my presentation do you? But seriously, this is a great little documentary, thank you.

this was great!

Great vid, cheers

Very helpful, thank you

Administrator: Great mini-doc, but the volume is way too low! Any way to fix that?

Who else is watching this for school?

thank you

Nice doc

Thank you.

This is a great mashup of a lot of different sources! Thanks for making this. I'm actually planning out a class on punk and I want to use bebop v. swing as a pattern of music as resistance and social commentary to go ahead and talk about punk's emergence as resistance to pop and prog rock, social conventions, gender/race issues, the imperial nature of capitalism, etc. I think I'll have students watch this to give them a good a overview of what bop musicians were doing. In my own thinking, I call both bebop and punk "musical fuck yous!"

Great video :)

great video

What piece is at 9:16

Looks like Elvin Jones at 1:26.

nice voice

WOW! This is quiet!

Great video! If I may ask, how is the cartoon in the and named?

What do you think of the anime cowboy bebop?

Great video, can anyonehelp me find the name of the Charlie Parker song at 3:05? thank you!

What accent does the narrator have? I love it!

More like Bebop Jazz: The Evolution of ART Through Music!

I know this pretty lady Caira.. met u on knust campus

whats the composer and name of that song that plays at 1:16?

Can someone remind me the name of the piece at 1:05 ?

My only problem with this narrative come is that I don't like people, I like old school jazz, I like New Orlean Jazz, I like screaming That Jazz,.. Mainly because Modern Day jazz practitioners and typically play Bebop, and totally disregarding the likes of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, chick Webb and his orchestra on and on and off, when they practice jazz in colleges and universities, it's within the form of Bebop. And Bebop actually, was not that popular. And did not sell records... You can't dance to it, the harmonies are too complex, African-American stop doing their dance called the Lindy Hop as a result of that, and that Dan tragically disappeared out of the black community... I understand the fact that jazz musicians wanted to elevate themselves, wanted to challenge themselves exedra oh, but you have to think about the ideas what they want to listen to them what they want to hear.

Not bad...your angle of the 'social' aspects of the change from swing ignores the economics involved @ the end of WWII

What's the song @ 1:03?

interviewer name and source? please help

Its berets not barrettes!

you spelt extremely wrong @ 6:54

So proud that this is yet another black creation, a fine example of black excellence and dominance...yet sad because wtf are black doing people with it now?

imagine doing elective music...

good piece but it really needed more music without the vo

Blaming capitalism? I think not.