{"id":2673,"date":"2008-02-28T07:53:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2008-02-27T23:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T06:27:45","slug":"bebop-and-the-brain-thelonious-monks-career-advice-to-working-realtors-and-lenders-we-wanted-a-music-that-they-couldnt-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2673\/bebop-and-the-brain-thelonious-monks-career-advice-to-working-realtors-and-lenders-we-wanted-a-music-that-they-couldnt-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Bebop and the brain — Thelonious Monk’s career advice to working Realtors and lenders: “We wanted a music that they<\/I> couldn’t play”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We listen to Bebop Jazz in the office. If I talk about music, I tend to talk about Rock ‘n’ Roll or Country, just because they’re more inclusive. Bebop is demanding music even for Jazz, definitely an acquired taste.<\/p>\n

Instrumental music is good at work, of course, since you can play it fairly quietly, and since there are no words (except “Salt Peanuts!”) to interfere with your thinking.<\/p>\n

I would argue that complex compositions — like Classical or Modern, Progressive or Cool Jazz — will tend to improve the quality of your thoughts, through time, since your mind has to work so much harder to process the music. Constant exercise for the muscle of the mind should make you a stronger thinker. It seems reasonable to me that a familiarity with musical cadences will make you a better writer, as well.<\/p>\n

Lately we’ve been tuned into the Bebop station at Yahoo’s LaunchCast on-line radio portal<\/a>. Like all LaunchCast stations, the playlist could be a lot longer, but it’s a pretty nice representation of the Bebop idea in Jazz: Bird, Monk, Dizzy, Dex, Mingus, Trane, Miles. A little bit of Art Tatum, which I love, and a little Hard Bop, which I loathe. Bud Powell and Cannonball Adderley to show the world how a sound this demanding can still be fun. If you really want to listen<\/i>, you have to go to your own record collection. But for the office, it’s the best solution we’ve found so far.<\/p>\n

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\"Creative<\/a> photo<\/a> credit: MikeLove<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

That’s all beside the point, though. You either like Jazz or you don’t, and many people don’t. But the quote from Monk in the headline<\/p>\n

“We wanted a music that they<\/i> couldn’t play.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

is practically a mission statement for Web 2.0-empowered Realtors and lenders.<\/p>\n

Bebop was born during a musician’s union strike<\/a> in 1942-43. Players who had been working as sidemen in Big Band and Swing orchestras would spend their idle days together in two Harlem nightclubs, jamming for each other. Over a very short span of time they created a brand new form of music, with a brand new music theory all its own.<\/p>\n

The “they” in Monk’s Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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