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Davis, on the other hand, had been through small-group bebop in the '40s, and found it too intense and inward; as he noted in his autobiography, he was struggling to find a way to make bop sound "sweet."
The old-established Caveau de la Huchette (rue de la Huchette in St-Germain-des-Prés) opens every night at 9:30pm for listening and dancing to a small combo or big band swing or bebop.
But once the big band no longer played dance music, it morphed into some strange, decadent forms--Stan Kenton's small municipalities with five trombones, for instance, or intellectual ensembles like Boyd Raeburn's that magnified bebop's hustled rhythms and tricky harmonies.
When he convened a nonet with Evans and Gerry Mulligan's help in 1948, and recorded the music which would later be released as Birth of the Cool , he was blending bebop with a reduced vision of Claude Thornhill's instrumentation.
Having risked appearing foolish in the cause of his art; having tackled his parts with demented, hyperbolic integrity, letting the madness of his roles infuse him and carry him into the ether; having snagged an Oscar for his besotted, bebop melancholia in Leaving Las Vegas ; Nicolas Cage has now set out to prove that he can be as much of an overmuscled jackass as Sylvester Stallone.