Many years ago Jackson Sloan was the driving force on the Jump Jive circuit… Read Full Bio ↴Many years ago Jackson Sloan was the driving force on the Jump Jive circuit with his top band "RENT PARTY". Featuring Alan Savage, Steve Weston, Andy Stevens, Laurence Parry and John Wilmot, they built a solid reputation in the UK as well as in Europe, topping the bill on countless Festivals and in many clubs, they appeared on many TV shows and released four singles and two albums.

In 1988 RENT PARTY broke up and Jackson found himself working in many different musical areas. He recorded the 12" dance floor classic "Night in Tunisia" with DJ and Latin percussionist 'Snowboy'. In 1989 Jackson recorded a solo album called "Old Angel Midnight" with top British jazz musicians. This received great response from fans and critics alike, the album has been re-released recently in Japan and Hungry and has been very successful.

After spending many years in the jazz field Jackson has decided to get back to his roots of Jump-Jive, Blues and Boogie-Woogie R&B so he phoned drummer, Alan Savage, and asked if he would be interested in getting a band together. Alan jumped at the chance, having had great times together in Rent Party, and knowing that with the right musicians behind him, Jackson would once more become a driving force in the current Jump-Jive, Swing, Boogie-Woogie World.

The core line-up of the band is:
Jackson Sloan - vocals
Alan Savage - drums
James Lunn - piano
Paul Garner - guitar
Albie Green - tenor sax
John Wilmott - tenor sax
Pete Pritchard - double-bass

Oop-Bop Sh'out
Oo-Bop-Sh'Bam Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Oo-Bop-Sh'Bam:

Be My Guest Go! So one, two, three, take my hand and come with…
I Like To Bop I don't like it, I love it, love it, love…
Rock Rock Rock Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock, Jingle bells swi…

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Comments from YouTube:

@dwightlove3704

4y↑33

This footage helps me to appreciate these artists when they were young and the impact they have on the music industry.

@PepperWilliamsMusicBlend

3y↑10

Dizzy was just too cool for words! His band had so many greats in it!!

@eduardovelazco1821

4y↑26

1:40 Dizzy twerking haha

@PepperWilliamsMusicBlend

Hahahahaha So true!!

@maxtoscano

24w↑1

Dizzy great dancer too, complete artist. The trumpet is again straight, not crooked !

@ATMABRAHM

9y↑33

early jazz was so much fun.

@guidemeChrist

3y↑9

This is modern jazz

@dwightlove3704

@@guidemeChrist Miles Davis said that he HATED the term of Jazz Music.

@dwightlove3704

ATMABRAHM Henry Ford called jazz music evil!!!!!!

@user-bo7py9tp9q

4y↑18

I don’t understand how some people actually hit dislike over this.

@geraldjohnson4013

4y↑6

They're tone deaf.

@donvasquez1791

1y↑3

They're not musicians

@jDarat

35w

They were told by someone to listen to this and we’re insulted because they listen to Cardi b and rap

@bertus161057

15w↑1

Saw him live at North Sea jazz 1980 or so wonderful❤

@damonwatlington6526

1y↑4

Dizzy Is Phenomenal Genius and So Handsome He looks Beautiful 😍

@viggosimonsen

6y↑15

Billy Eckstine, I think it was, once told in an interview: "In those days, people always danced to our music. It was dance music." It also applied to the small bebop combos. It probably lasted until the late 40'ies.

@auprivave2996

1y↑2

0:54 look at the drummer flip his stick

@vieasbeauty189

3y↑9

I love my culture❤

@lesbrown331

9y↑6

Brought back memories of the shows at the old Tivoly.

@BarryPennock

8y↑4

Pure genius. I have a recording of a different version. Out of this world!

@medpub

6y↑4

I think it was more fun back then than it is now!

@Telstar62a

9y↑5

Love that... about 4:30 a combo of a Duck Walk / Moon Walk

@TheDocRitchie

2y↑1

love Dizzy's moves, especially 38 secs in after klook drops them bombs!

@rickcoleman8277

5y↑4

this is a treasure, especially the dance footage!

@jasperchance3382

2y↑1

Brilliant!

@TheTSGA

10y↑3

Classic!!!

@anisshivani8684

3y↑1

This is amazing!

@FireypepperCP

4y↑2

Outstanding!

2/8/2020

@barryponds9785

4y↑1

My birthday😂💯

@cflo1023

4y↑1

YESSIR!!!!! Feel it, feel it!!!! Come on Diz!

@marike1100

44w

Tenor Madness or possibly Dizzy Gillespie’s “Oo Bop Shabam”.

@bradleyhan2770

5y↑1

that was amazing and so much fun

@gregd3551

7y↑1

Some crazy steppin'

@adriancalin8688

I knew this genius before1970?

@dannyfenris7708

6y↑1

100% solid gold entertainment!

@dannyfenris7708

6y↑1

24 carat even. Whatever. This stuff is a joy.

@Dolores5000

This is the best thing ever

@nova_no6840

Majorly Epic

@randalmcmurphy1893

great stuff.

@joelcamous

11y↑5

1947 .......

@estebanvenegas89

4y↑1

oo bop sh bam a klook a mop

@Nodachi95

✨

@BuddhaBites

Is that Max Roach back there?

@nurimajeed8595

I'm n be bop heaven!!!

@darkoanton5

You can clearly see Dizzy's influence on Ropy Hargrove in these videos.

@scrunklepunk

EVERYONES TALKIN BOUT BUGSNAX

@8House

10y↑5

Who's that on the vibes during the dance number?

@fnkyolsol

10y

Dizzy GILLESPIE "Oop Bop Sh' Bam" !!!

@conniebryson7854

5y↑2

Milt Jackson.

@tahnzahnmacmanor7291

18w

Who were the tap dancers?

@MaciejAfanasjew

Which year is that? Who was the member of the big band (the soloists, rhythm section)?

@paulalerini9696

Concours d’orleans

@Izboy112

Andy Wasserman taught me this song.

@sewinmusewynn6957

6y↑1

he did well in doing so.

@BopWalk

8y↑6

Dizzy does it better than Billy Eckstein's version.

@melodynote333

Ah Google bop

@morfarviksturmm2652

Is this 1947 ?

@reneematte8426

34w↑1

Merci JUSTAS via Dizzy Gillespie e & amis musiciens 🎼🎸🎹💖🥁✿¸.•'**☆ ╰⊰✿💖♪

@christopherredwood2669

9y↑2

That's Milton Hinton on the vibes

@gcrav

9y↑4

Christopher Redwood Milt Jackson. Milt Hinton was a bass player.

@wesjohnson8434

8y↑2

No, that was Milton Jackson on vibes.

@dj.odiesp521

Came here because of Marno

@gcrav

9y↑7

If those dancers had been around doing their thing, Michael Jackson would have been out of business.

@dwightlove3704

GCRAV MJ would have never gotten in the business in the first place if he was around in this era.

@billyelpedro7465

You want to be in google maps

@barrymoore6507

ugh it skips during the best dance part

@nyronut

43w

too hip for the room

@JazzKeyboardist1

9y↑2

cool, Pat Metheny and Keith Jarret could not play in this band because Diz would distract them too much.. Keith really hates coughing too

@charlesliles2966

7y↑4

Jazzkeyboardist, I don't understand your saying that Keith Jarret "hates coughing" when he made so many ANNOYING groans and grunts on many of his records. Contradiction?

@JazzKeyboardist1

Hey yes it is the Do as I say and not as I do... Donald Trump loved wiki leaks but hates his own people taking a leak.. I still own about ten of keith's records but I will not listen to him anymore because he is a little bitch..lol

@mypockets1

Whats he sayin afterOo bop sh bam ?

@axisboldaslove5726

7y↑4

Clarke wrote a series of exercises for himself to develop the independence of the bass drum and snare drum, while maintaining the time on the ride cymbal. One of these passages, a combination of a rim shot on the snare followed directly by a bass drum accent, earned Clarke his nickname, "Klook", which was short for "Klook-mop", in imitation of the sound this combination produced. This nickname was enshrined in "Oop Bop Sh'Bam," recorded by Dizzy Gillespie in 1946 with Clarke on drums, where the scat lyric to the bebop tune goes "oop bop sh'bam a klook a mop."

@adriannasweet2114

It is a bop pop ;)

@irenewood9569

A klook a mop

@morfarviksturmm2652

@@irenewood9569 Thanks !!!

@morfarviksturmm2652

@@axisboldaslove5726 Fascinating Thanks !!!!

@kirkfeather1

2y↑1

I think jazz lost something important when the musicians started to get snobby and say they didn't want anybody dancing to their music. That's where it all came from, man!

@BopWalk

1y↑1

It may have lost it's dance appeal but in turn, it gained a complexity, stimulation and spirituality where musicians would actually enjoy playing everytime as opposed playing the same old swing songs the same way everytime. Bebop was musician's music.

@Auntkekebaby

27w

@@BopWalk Yes

@dwightlove3704

Fred Astaire could not touch these guys in his prime.

@bblegacy

Fred Astaire wasn't a *musician*.

@dwightlove3704

@@bblegacy I was talking about the dancers

@captlarry-3525

do you get the feeling that cocaine might have been the drug of choice for these cats ?

@jeanhodgson8623

6y↑4

No, I don't. They were great musicians. Dizzy, in particular, did not use ANY drugs. Besides, Charlie wasn't big at that time. It was mainly liquor and, in some cases, smack back then.

@nurimajeed8595

@@jeanhodgson8623 yes sadly mostly smack...my dad was a musician n thankfully didnt use but many of his friends n bandmates did

@danielcruz8347

40's Over Counter Drug store 'x Benzedrine Inhalers. Crack open tube remove strip.. Drop into drink..

@BopWalk

7y↑8

This big band was Dizzy's attempt to convince audience's that Bebop music was danceable. Sadly, he failed though.

@JazzKeyboardist1

7y↑12

good one but it was the audience who failed.. talented people can dance to silence

@captlarry-3525

sing in all the be-bop joints in NYC.. " NO DANCING"...

@FJMLAM

incredible dancing but the worst camera man in history.

@bebopuser

they look a little stupid dancing like that, i mean it was a little "necessary" to demonstrate that bebop can be danced but not that way! they are being superficial with the noise.

@usmc1875

4y↑3

Well that's an interesting point of view. But why not think about it in a different way. They guys playing, loved to play and the guys dancing loved to dance, so they both got together to present the world with this tremendous piece of art. I think they were more interested in enjoying their humanity and betting their happiness and joyfulness into bebop and music in general as opposed to the misery humanity is used to these days:)

@usmc1875

4y↑4

What other suitable ways could they have done this so nobody would feel offended or that it wasn't "mainstream". Humanity has to learn to shut up cause all they talk about and all they judge from is from memory and we are prisoners of our memories, if we are gonma suffer for personal stuff that happened 10 years ago, at least lets not suffer for art that involved the work of other wonderful and joyful human beings:) let's us shut up and enjoy things as they are:) cause in the end nor your tipping nor my tipping are gonna change the world. These guys at least did change theirs and others :)

@ladykate2602

4y↑2

@@usmc1875 oh thank you for writing all those words I felt in my heart, John. You are the best.

@bblegacy

I totally agree. They weren't dancing in the late night sessions at Minton's where Bird, Diz, Monk, and Charlie Christian formed bop after they got out of work at night in the more "conventional" bands they played in. But by 1945-46 the powers-that-be in the music business (who were the ones responsible for making "swing" widely popular a decade earlier) saw that there was obviously something "new" going on among here-to-fore "working" musicians, so as businessmen out to make a buck they needed to find a way to sell it, like anything else.

It's not widely known but Bop was given a tremendous build-up by the music business during 1946 and especially 1947 after a lot of the most important big bands broke up at the end of 1946, because there were just too many economic factors working against bandleaders by then and the cost of paying 15 musicians on salary every week just couldn't be sustained any more. The best musicians were getting restless too but after a year of trying to make bop sell-able and two strikes called by the musicians union that effectively banned 95% of working musicians from recording from 1942-44 and 1947-48, "the business" had enough with dealing with "the Union". People now are generally totally ignorant about how strong and important the musicians' union was back then, everywhere. In any event, "the business" looked elsewhere for raw, exploitable talent. They would market watered-down "inoffensive" vanilla pop music that they knew people would buy in large numbers. Novelty and corn were never hard to sell to the vast majority of non-musician Americans. Pop singers were given top billing throughout the record and entertainment business and small R&B acts were easily more sell-able and far less expensive to maintain, (- there wasn't a designated "leader" who didn't have to pay 15 musicians, an arranger, a band singer (if not two) and a music copyist who turned the arrangers' scores into working sets of parts read by each of the musicians on their music stands). The biggest names wouldn't go away; they were the "elder statesmen" by 1948. But he glory days for the young and restless musicians in their footsteps were over. A lot of young musicians didn't want to be "entertainers" any more and jazz was gone from being a marketable mass commodity for two reasons: "the business" found out the new music wasn't commercial enough sell vast quantities of the complicated music and a lot of the musicians that played "modern" jazz had no interest in "selling out" anyway. And nothing on either side has changed since then.

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