Does anyone know what instruments people use in bebop - jazz?!
Question: Be bop is not defined by the instruments used to play it. Be bop has been played with all types of instruments since it was created by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker back in the early 1940's.
Be bop IS defined by the way the soloist played their solos. The solos were different than in previous forms of jazz. In be bop, the soloist played a solo that didn't contain the melody. The soloing was totally unique, this is what makes be bop what it is. If you listen to Dizzy and Charlie Parker, you can hear exactly what I have described. They are THE STANDARD of how be bop should be played.
Dizzy and Charlie Parker's band was trumpet, alto sax, piano, acoustic bass, drums. Traditional, trombone, guitar, and tenor sax are often added. Like I said earlier, you can have any instrumental configuration.
Answers: Be bop is not defined by the instruments used to play it. Be bop has been played with all types of instruments since it was created by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker back in the early 1940's.
Be bop IS defined by the way the soloist played their solos. The solos were different than in previous forms of jazz. In be bop, the soloist played a solo that didn't contain the melody. The soloing was totally unique, this is what makes be bop what it is. If you listen to Dizzy and Charlie Parker, you can hear exactly what I have described. They are THE STANDARD of how be bop should be played.
Dizzy and Charlie Parker's band was trumpet, alto sax, piano, acoustic bass, drums. Traditional, trombone, guitar, and tenor sax are often added. Like I said earlier, you can have any instrumental configuration.
Certainly...trumpet, bass, percussion [drums], sax [alto or baritone], and ocassionally the piano. Check Miles Davis during his bebop days to hear which instruments composed the group. Also Parker and even Ornette Coleman.
well it all depends on the bandleader usually... but bebop is classically based around instruments such as saxophone (John Coltrane), trumpet (Miles Davis), and other brass... these instruments give the improvised melodic lines that provide the cherry on top of the backing music...
accompanying instruments often include piano (which can also lead the band, such as in the work of Thelonius Monk), brushed drums, double bass, and other brass instruments, used harmonically rather than melodically in a lead sense
Standard instruments, as in all styles of jazz: drums, piano, bass, sometimes guitar, trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophone .......