Not many jazz fans are familiar with the Six, a bebop group in the mid-1950s with roots in Dixieland of the late 1940s. The migration from one style to the other was an interesting one, with personnel changes and a shift in feel. What's especially enlightening is the line that runs from Dixieland to bop. Both share frantic, hot instrumentals coming and …
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