Abstract
The author of the article analyzes the individual style of American jazz musicians of the era of bebop – one of the most signiicant stages of the history of jazz. The advancement to the forefront of the personal element in the jazz music of this time period is stipulated by social, racial, aesthetic and psychological reasons. This inevitably causes researchers to contemplate on the bright individualities of jazz musicians and the original contributions of each one of them into the new jazz style. While creating the diverse “stylistic portraits,” the author of the article considers their complexity, conditioned by a multitude of constituent elements. It becomes possible to trace out the various levels of correlation of the general and the individual within the framework of the formed criteria of the epoch of bebop on the example of the performances of pianists Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk and Lenny Tristano. Each one of them was able to express his attitude towards the rules established by the direct creators of the style, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Keywords: Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell, Lenny Tristano, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz, beebop
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