Scene: Bebop in New York City, 1940s and '50s
By Britt Robson, eMusic Contributor
It may have been the hippest ambush in the history of music, an undercover coup waged and staged in the clubs of New York City that, more than a half-century later, still provides the foundation of modern jazz. When the American Federation of Musicians called a recording strike in the summer of 1942, the style that would become known as bebop was in its infancy, mostly consigned to after-hours jam sessions at a pair of… more »