Complex, quick-paced melodic lines, fresh rhythmic concepts, exploratory harmonic improvisation techniques, and ferocious instrumental prowess characterized the music. Bebop evolved into a variety of (typically less frantic) modern jazz styles after the war.
Jazz's bebop movement began in the early 1940s, with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and others at the forefront. It aided in the transition of jazz from easily danced-to popular music to more difficult "musician's music." Early bebop distinguished itself from dance music in a significant way from swing, establishing itself more as an artistic movement while diminishing its potential for mass appeal and economic success. Bebop used faster tempos because it was intended to be listened to rather than danced to.
The dissonant tritone (or "flatted fifth") interval became the "most important interval of bebop," and players used a more abstract form of chord-based improvisation that used "passing" chords, substitute chords, and altered chords. Beboppers introduced new types of chromaticism and dissonance into jazz.
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