Once Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Curley Russell, Max Roach and other jazz musicians developed bebop and began recording the revolutionary style in 1945, other gifted jazz artists of the period quickly figured out the new language. Among the most exciting and proficient bop groups of 1947 was the short-lived Serge Chalof…
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