{"product_id":"inside-jazz-isbn-9780306800764","title":"Inside Jazz","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBy 1940 the big band sound had grown  stale, and jazz musicians began to search out new sounds and styles. At  the Harlem nightclub Minton's Playhouse, a small group of musicians --  John Birks, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Beau Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk,  among sounding blend of flatted fifths, unfamiliar chord lines, and  accelerated offbeat rhythms. They were joined on 52nd Street by alto  saxist Charles Bird Parker, and bop -- or bebop, as it was first called,  from the triplet figure buh-BE-bop -- was born.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBop was aggressive,  provocative, and belligerent, Its proponents wore gears and berets and  refereed to the Dixieland and New Orleans diehards as moldy figs who in  tureen labelled the new jazz the modern complex chord, and a new  reperatory into jazz, and by the end of the forties the moldy figs were  forced to concede that bop was indeed the harbinger of a new direction  in American jazz.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eCritic Leonard Feather was one of the earliest and most  persistent champions of bop. It was he who persuaded RCA Victor that  the new music was worth recording. His \u003ci\u003eInside Jazz \u003c\/i\u003eis a full-length  account of bop: its origins and development and the personalities of the  musicians who created it. Numerous photographs and anecdotes bring this  innovative era in jazz history to life once more.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Da Capo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891015643365,"sku":"NP9780306800764","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/inside-jazz-isbn-9780306800764","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}