bebop: a style of jazz playing, fast eighth-note lines weaving through rapidly changing chord progressions, popular in the mid-late 40’s. Think Charlie Parker. Exciting, intellectual, difficult.
Be-Bop Buffet is a tremendous accordion duet of mostly bebop tunes. Simone Zanchini (Italy) on the left channel and Frank Marocco(America) on the right. Comping and playing time for each other as they rip through the changes. Fast, fun, great playing.
From the king of bebop and all jazz, Charlie Parker, to the father of hard-bop, Horace Silver, to standards and more modern compositions by Charlie Haden and Marocco. These guys can play bebop to anything.
The Flintstones: The most famous of all bebop chord progressions is the string of chords to Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm. This set of chords has been used countless times in both jazz melodies and popular tunes: Indiana, Straighten Up and Fly Right, Cottontail, Oleo to name a few. It is also the chrord progression of the theme to the cartoon The Flintstones. Which is the tune that wraps up this disk.
I agree with Vittorio Lo Conte when he says in his All About Jazz review:
Be-Bop Buffet is a disc that is heard throughout a breath, in which the genre in which they chose to express themselves is restored to the fullest. I due sembrano fatti l’uno per l’altro, simbiotici, come si dice, così che alla fine ci si pone la domanda: a quando la prossima incisione insieme? The two seem made for each other, symbionts, as they say, so that finally there is the question: when the next recording together?
Be-Bop Buffet è un disco che si ascolta tutto di un fiato, in cui il genere musicale in cui hanno scelto di esprimersi viene ridato al meglio. I due sembrano fatti l’uno per l’altro, simbiotici, come si dice, così che alla fine ci si pone la domanda: a quando la prossima incisione insieme? Valutazione: 4 stelle
Be-Bop Buffet
Wide Sound Records
2006
Acc: Simone Zanchini
Acc: Frank Marocco