1. He Beeped When He Shoulda Bopped Dizzy Gillespie/arr

2. Charlie Parker was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who, with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the musical style called bop or Bebop.

3. Bebop gives jazz its basic musical vocabulary; this style is the common practice period for jazz The two most important figures in Bebop were Charlie Parker (1920-1955) and Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) A Night in Tunisia - Charlie Parker Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk How High The

4. Vocal Bebopping vocal jazz The most important scat singer of the bebop era was Diana Krall Ella Fitzgerald Charlie Parker Billie Holiday Dizzy Gillespie The demise of the Swing Era big bands was, in part, due to the World War II draft, i.e., many jazz musicians were called to war