Jazz in the post-war years: In the early 1940s, bebop-style performers began to shift jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging "musician's music." The most influential bebop musicians included saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer Max Roach. Divorcing itself from dance music, bebop established itself more as an art form, thus lessening its potential popular and commercial appeal. Composer Gunther Schuller wrote, "In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it and all those other great musicians. They were playing all the flatted
Dizzie Tunes 1966 and starring Wenche Myhre. Their next revues were "Syv glade lerker på en blå gren" from 1969 and "Show før jo heller" from 1971. In 1972 singer and actress Grethe Kausland starred at the revue "På scenekanten", and she later regularly performed with the group. Other revues were "Memories of Music" from 1980 and "The show must go home" from 1984. The 1988 revue "Festsprell i Dizzie Tider" had Hege Schøyen and Jon Skolmen as guest stars, and "Dizzie og Damene" at Chat Noir in 1993 had Elisabeth Andreassen and Ellen Nikolaysen as guest performers. In their comedy routines