Charlie
Parker - Roy Haynes - Miles Davis
The creators of the Be Bop asserted
their identity, expressed the sufferings of the American black people and disparage
a society where their statute of citizen was scorned.
In regards to the drums, the infernal
tempos of the new themes and the cramped scenes led the drummers to adapt
their play and their equipment.
•Max
Roach then
Philly Joe Jones figure among the more creative drummers
of this time, with Art Blakey,
who founded with the pianist Horace Silver, within the Jazz Messengers, another
trend called "Hard Bop".
At
the moment the United States entered at war, a handful of
The first one of them, Kenny Clarke,
generalized the employment of the ride cymbal in order to play the "Chabada"
and developped a big independence of the left hand.
The bassdrum still played all the times
but also played "bombs" punctuating like the left hand the speech
of the soloist. The dimensions of the bassdrum were reduced, and started to
hold an important melodic role in the play of the drummer.
musicians
will make the Jazz explode,
imposing new behaviors and a new frame of mind. In the smoky clubs of New York,
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke has created
a new musical form : the Be Bop, disparaged but
appreciated by a part of the public.
The
music has not anymore his vocation to incite to the dance but rather to the
listening ; it is the expression of the revolt against the omnipresent racial
segregation in the United States, the commercial system corrupting the music
of Jazz and the picture of the black person in the society.
New forms were born in this period, sometimes
in reaction to the Be Bop, like the Cool Jazz of Miles Davis or the West Coast
trend in California.
Simultaneously, the Rockn'Roll made his
entry about 1955 with the guitarist Chuck Berry but the great Rock drummers
are not again there...
