CONTENTS:
Introduction
The Road
Roots And Seeds
Minton's And Monroe's
Fifty-Second Street
California
Big-Band Bop
The Bop Era
End Of An Era

IRA GITLER is a writer, critic, and educator. Author of The Masters of Bebop (which he wrote as a Guggenheim Fellow) and co-author of The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Jazz, he has also been one of the most prolific and respected annotators of LPs and CDs for a half-century.

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