Bebop (Bop) – Study Sessions at Minton’s | Studying Jazz

Bebop jazz music for studying, focus and deep work — authentic 1940s New York small-combo sessions with walking bass, fast swing, rhythm changes and bebop blues. Period-faithful production with vintage tube warmth and late-night club energy from Harlem and 52nd Street.

This is Studying Jazz #021 – Bebop (Bop): modern jazz forged in early–mid 1940s jam-session laboratories, defined by dense II–V–I chains, altered dominants, tritone substitutions, and chromatic improvisation (approach tones, enclosures, arpeggios outlining 3rds/7ths plus 9ths/11ths/13ths). Built for writing, reading, concentration, and serious jazz study.

Production (period-coded)
Small-room dryness, mono-focused image, gentle tube grit and light tape hiss. No modern electronics—just classic combo articulation. The last two tracks are presented as live captures: hotter peaks, more room spill, and real-time risk.

Tracklist (Click to Jump)
0:00 Birth of Bebop
4:43 52nd Street Blues
8:12 Night Study on 52nd Street
12:28 Harlem Workshop Changes
17:25 Bebop Midnight Ballad
21:17 Trading Fours at Minton’s
24:46 Bebop Study in Notation
29:51 Last Call at Minton’s
33:46 Blackboard Rhythm Changes
37:39 After-Seminar Jam on Lenox Avenue
40:29 Late Office Hours in B-Flat
43:24 Chalk Dust over Rhythm Changes
46:55 Harmonic Lab on 52nd Street
50:25 Quiet Ballad for the Last Student
53:24 Midnight Rehearsal at Minton’s (LIVE)
56:19 Closing Time on 52nd Street (LIVE)

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Drift Archives Note
A silent space raccoon archivist recovered a holo-tube labeled “#021 – Bebop (Bop)”, cleaned the signal, and filed it at the Intergalactic Jazz Academy as required listening. What you hear is that restored transmission.

Quick references (style anchors)
– Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: the core bebop vocabulary (listen to Parker’s “Ko-Ko” and early Gillespie sides for the language in motion).
– Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Bebop (book): one of the strongest historical accounts of bebop’s emergence as a scene, a market, and a modern art.
– Bird (1988, film): a cinematic doorway into the Parker mythos and its costs.

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Contact & Collaboration
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