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Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century

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There's really not much I can say about this book. It's as advertised, a history of the bebop movement. Bebop was never popular. Yet it is the root of all jazz movements up to the present. It has its fair amount of dissonance, yet it is not Avant Garde or Free Form jazz. There is much to be gained by the reading of this tome by the listener and musician alike. All I can recommend is that you read this book, and you'll listen for things in a bebop improv you've never heard, or paid attention to before. A good read.