A stunning vintage 1940s ceramic bust of two African American jazz singers with a beautiful design finish with excellent facial features and expressions with a green suit, yellow shirt, and maroon bowtie, creating an exciting figure that is perfect for a music collector or a jazz enthusiast.
It is in vintage condition with minimal patina to the paint and no chips.
Height:18 cm
Length: 22 cm
Width:12 cm
In the early 1940s, jazz bebop emerged, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others. It helped to shift jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music." Differing vastly from swing, early bebop divorced itself from dance music, establishing itself more as an art form but lessening its potential popular and commercial value. Since bebop was meant to be listened to, not danced to, it used faster tempos. Beboppers introduced new forms of chromaticism and dissonance into jazz; the dissonant tritone (or "flatted fifth") interval became the "most important interval of bebop", and players engaged in a more abstracted form of chord-based improvisation which used "passing" chords, substitute chords, and altered chords. The drumming style shifted to a more elusive and explosive style, in which the ride cymbal was used to keep time, while the snare and bass drum were used for accents. This appealed to a more specialised audience than earlier forms of jazz, with sophisticated harmonies, fast tempos and often virtuoso musicianship. Bebop musicians frequently used 1930s standards, especially those from Broadway musicals, as part of their repertoire.