A Critical History of Jazz in the 1950s

Abstract

Describes the movement in the 1950s away from the earlier jazz forms of Swing and Be-Bop to Cool-Bop and then Hard-Bop, focusing on central figures Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, and Ornette Coleman.