In the words of the musicians who made it happen, Swing to Bop chronicles a watershed in jazz history: the music's movement from the Big Band era into the modern period. Ira Gitler interviewed more than fifty figures who, during the 1940s, helped make bop the most powerful force in modern jazz. Along with the music and musicians, the book sharply evokes the atmosphere in which they flourished. "By intercutting the interviews, he has summoned up a round-table discussion that uncovers little-known historical nuggets and terrific anecdotes....Mr. Gitler has done an exhaustive and creditable job."--The New York Times Book Review
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