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The popular animé series Cowboy Bebop gets its own feature-length film with the aptly named Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Set in the late 21st century, it jumps into the series’ story line just prior to its conclusion, with the bounty hunting crew of the interstellar craft Bebop chasing a hacker aboard a tanker into a major city on Mars. As crew member Faye Valentine closes in on the tanker, she witnesses its catastrophic explosion, which soon appears to be a viral terrorist attack as the death toll continues to mount in the days following. Furthermore, Faye caught a glimpse of the person responsible for the blast and is thus the only surviving witness of the crime. After the government puts out a large bounty for the perpetrator’s capture, the Bebop gang — slacker Spike Spiegel, former policeman Jet Black, and hacker girl genius Edward — begin their own hunt for the mass murderer, who is eventually revealed to be one Vincent Volaju. Vincent, it turns out, was the lone survivor of a governmental medical test and now seeks revenge by unleashing the same microscopic robotic virus used in the tanker explosion on the unsuspecting city. The Bebop crew must scramble to prevent Vincent from carrying out his plan, as well as try to locate an anti-virus to counterattack the effects of Vincent’s virus. Released in both dubbed and subtitled cuts in the United States in 2003, Cowboy Bebop – The Movie premiered in Japan in 2001. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi

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Cowboy Bebop Tank: The Best

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Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku No Tobira (B

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When bebop was new, writes Thomas Owens, “many jazz musicians and most of the jazz audience heard it as radical, chaotic, bewildering music.” For a nation swinging to the smoothly orchestrated sounds of the big bands, this revolutionary movement of the 1940s must have seemed destined for a short life on the musical fringe. But today, Owens writes, bebop is nothing less than “the lingua franca of jazz, serving as the principal musical language of thousands of jazz musicians.” In Bebop, Owens conducts us on an insightful, loving tour through the music, players, and recordings that changed American culture. Combining vivid portraits of bebop’s gigantic personalities with deft musical analysis, he ranges from the early classics of modern jazz (starting with the 1943 Onyx Club performances of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Don Byas, and George Wallington) through the central role of Charlie Parker, to an instrument-by-instrument look at the key players and their innovations. Illustrating his discussion with numerous musical excerpts, Owens skillfully demonstrates why bebop was so revolutionary, with fascinating glimpses of the tempestuous jazz world: Thelonious Monk, for example, did “everything ‘wrong’ in the sense of traditional piano technique….Because his right elbow fanned outward away from his body, he often hit the keys at an angle rather than in parallel. Sometimes he hit a single key with more than one finger, and divided single-line melodies between two hands.” In addition to his discussions of individual instruments and players, Owens examines ensembles, with their sometimes volatile collaborations: in the Jazz Messengers, Benny Golson told of how his own mellow saxophone playing would get lost under Art Blakey’s furious drumming: “He would do one of those famous four-bar drum rolls going into the next chorus, and I would completely disappear. He would holler over at me, ‘Get up out of that hole!’” In this marvelous account, Owens comes right to the present day, with accounts of new musicians ranging from the Marsalis brothers to lesser-known masters like pianist Michel Petrucciani. Bebop is a jazz-lover’s dream–a serious yet highly personal look at America’s most distinctive music.

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The first five episodes (Asteroid Blues, Stray Dog Strut, Honky Tonk Women, Gateway Shuffle, and Ballad of Fallen Angels) of the hit anime COWBOY BEBOP. See COWBOY BEBOP VOL. 1 – ASTEROID BLUES, COWBOY BEBOP VOL. 2 – HONKEY TONK WOMEN, and COWBOY BEBOP VOL. 3 – BALLAD OF FALLEN ANGELS for episode details.

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Contains episodes 19-22 of the series (Wild Horses, Pierrot Le Fou, Boogie Woogie Feng Shui, and Cowboy Funk). See COWBOY BEBOP VOL. 10 – WILD HORSES and COWBOY BEBOP VOL. 11 – BOOGIE OOGIE FENG-SHUI for episode details.

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Includes episodes 6-10 (Sympathy for the Devil, Heavy Metal Queen, Waltz For Venus, Jamming With Edward, and Ganymede Elegy) of the popular anime television series COWBOY BEBOP.

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Includes episodes 11-14 (Toys In The Attic, Jupiter Jazz (Part 1), Jupiter Jazz (Part 2), and Bohemian Rhapsody) of the popular anime television series COWBOY BEBOP.