... band swing music using a typical Dixieland music bass part, and popular songs, developing them into his own style, avoiding cliché. During the mid 1920s, he wrote "hot" jazz music at a time when music was usually written simply, in a rudimentary fashion for the dance orchestra. The "hot" style showed that Ellington wasn't afraid to try something different from most other people and be unique. Forming hot five and seven groups. An example of this type of music is, "Straight No Chaser". Throughout the 1930s and 40s Big band swing music was the most popular style, however, it suffered from cliché, which many jazz musicians wanted to pull away from. This was the time when the formation of Bebop occurred. Bebop music is more of a listening than dancing style of music. Cool jazz emerged in the early 50s at a time when rock and roll became the ...

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