Talk:List of bebop musicians

To bebop or not...
Can anyone confirm that Jerry Byrd - guitar was a bebop musician? If not, he stays out... --Technopat (talk) 19:56, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

The Seatbelts
It saddens me that The_Seatbelts have no honorable mention.

Completely misleading
This list includes many musicians who did not play bebop, who were not part of the bebop era, and whose only connection to bebop was that it was the parent style which they were obliged to master. For a couple of examples: in the case of Randy Brecker, born in 1945, the ONLY mention of the word "bebop" in his article is where someone editing it put him in the Category "Bebop trumpeters". Blossom Dearie? Really? Trying to find commonality between her and the bebop pianists Bud Powell or Thelonious Monk or Duke Jordan or... Her aesthetic, as a singer-pianist, is completely different. She is informed by the more advanced harmony and rhythmic sense of bebop, as is almost everyone in the post bebop era. That does not make them bebop musicians.

It is a disservice to bebop... Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald may have toured and/or recorded with beboppers, but they themselves do not manifest the bebop aesthetic -- angular melodies, complex polyrhythms, advanced harmonies, virtuosic tempi. Could any vocalist? Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 22:32, 25 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi
 * I agree totally. Many of the musicians in the list should be in a different chapter of "clearly influenced by bebop" otherwise any jazz musician after 1945 could be listed. I'll look forward to make a suggestion of musicians who should be deleted as "beboppers". Wisentzh (talk) 20:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)