The Beginning of Bop

Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940 ,Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parkeror Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop. - Jack Kerouc (1959).

Other Jazz related pages to check out:

Miles Davis on CD ,VERVE Celebrates Charlie Parker ,WNUR-FM JazzWeb , The Jazz Photography Of Ray AveryHard Bop Cafe[tm] Jazz Home Page .JAZZ KLON-FM/88.1 Daily Featured Artist ,Jazz Net , Neat Stuff: Jazz Quiz #1, Neat Stuff: Jazz Quiz #2, Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, Epistrophy: The Jazz Literature Archive , The Influence of Jazz on the Beat Generation

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Douglas M. Dusseau; Email: ddusseau@in.net Revised November 20,1995