These formed the basic small ensembles that have dominated jazz since the bebop era (after swing).
He's the connoisseur's jazz singer, a link to the bebop era, now in his mid-70's.
This was particularly so for combos in the bebop era.
They came along in the bebop era and found a way to combine bebop singing with cabaret.
The stories of the independent record labels operating during the bebop era is fascinating, when told by skilled writers.
When Roach died on August 16, 2007, he was one of our last links to the bebop era.
Tunes that utilize the jazz-blues harmony are fairly common in the jazz repertoire, especially from the bebop era.
Quotation is also a tradition in jazz performance, especially of the bebop era.
Gillespie has called this the "birth of the bebop era".
Johnson was also an early figure in the bebop era doing sessions with Coleman Hawkins in 1944.