Early Bebop will fill the air when the 78 RPM records of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Dexter Gordon will be heard on Joe Bev's The Jazz-O-Rama Hour.Host Joe Bev presents 78 RPM Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "The Early Bebop 78s of Bird, Diz, Miles & Dexter", including: 1. Charlie Parker's Reboppers With DIZZY Gillespie & Max Roach - Koko 2. Dizzy Gillespie Sextet With Charlie Parker & Slam Stewart - Groovin' High 3. Dizzy Gillespie And His All Stars Quintet With Charlie Parker - Salt Peanuts 4. The Miles Davis All Stars - Half Nelson 5. Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra With Milt Jackson & Al Haig - Antrophology 6. Charlie Parker Septet With Miles Davis & Lucky Thompson - Night In Tunisia 7. Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra - Oop-Pop-A-Da 8. Charlie Parker Septet With Miles Davis & Lucky Thompson - Ornithology 9. Charlie Parker's All Stars With John Lewis & Max Roach - Constellation 10. The Mc Ghee-Navarro Boptet, With Milt Jackson & Kenny Clarke - Boperation 11. Tadd Dameron And His Orchestra - Sid's Delight 12. Dexter Gordon - Dexter Rides Again 13. Charlie Parker  & Dizzy Gillespie - Bloomdido 14. Charlie Parker - Now's the Time Bebop or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody. It was developed in the early and mid-1940s. It first surfaced in musicians' argot some time during the first two years of American involvement in the Second World War. This style of jazz ultimately became synonymous with modern jazz, as either category reached a certain final maturity in the 1960s. Charles "Charlie" Parker, Jr., also known as "Yardbird" and "Bird" was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Miles Davis once said, "You can tell the HISTORY of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker." John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and occasional singer. Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that DIZZY'S style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time." Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion. Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was among the earliest tenor players to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the instrument. His studio and live performance career spanned over 40 years. Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton. Incredibly, Joe Bev currently acts on stage, TV and in movies, reports for NPR (All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Latino USA), and still finds time to produce 36 unique hours of radio every month, 12 of which are underwritten by book publisher BearManor Media. They are The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, The Jazz-O-Rama Hour, The Joe Bev Experience, Cartoon Carnival, The Joe B