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by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson — 9/9/1949

“Bop is no love-child of jazz,” says Charlie Parker. The creator of bop, in a series of interviews that took more than two weeks, told us he felt that “bop is something entirely separate and apart” from the older tradition; that it drew little…

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