Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Ira Gitler

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Ira Gitler

352 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative reflective slow-paced
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This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year ...

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