Thomas Owens is Professor of Music at El Camino College in Torrance, California.
"The most in-depth and scholarly assessment of the context, music,
and its practitioners to date."--Eddie Meadows, author of Jazz
Research and Performance Materials
"A detailed, well-researched book for those serious about jazz and
its components. It will double as interesting reading for
individuals, and be vitally useful in the classroom. Bravo!"--John
Clayton
"An excellent way to get a more-than-superficial knowledge of
certain aspects of bebop."--Jazz Now
"A very informative and enlightening book."--Horace Silver
"Both for the specialist and the general reader, Thomas Owens's
Bebop: The Music and Its Players is an informative and highly
readable treatment of this major development in jazz
history."--Notes
"Accessible and inviting."--Booklist
"This is about as microscopic a look a bebop as you can get from a
book....An excellent way to get a more-than-superficial knowledge
of certain aspects of bebop."--Jazz Now
"A very informative and enlightening book on the bebop
era."--Horace Silver
"Owens has an impressive grasp of the essence and importance of
bop. He dazzles the reader with his transcribed and annotated
musical examples. This book makes you want to listen."--Douglas A.
Ramsey, author of Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music and Some
of its Makers
"Owens does something valuable and new by offering musical
transcriptions--in the manner of a string quartet score--of what an
entire group is doing during an entire recording. This places the
soloist in an ensemble context, without which it is impossible to
fully understand what the soloist is doing."--Lingua Franca
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