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Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
Swing to Bop An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
Author: Ira Gitler
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 period, to preserve for posterity their recollections of the transition in jazz from the big band e...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195050707
ISBN-10: 0195050703
Publication Date: 5/28/1987
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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