One of jazz's wiliest mysteries involves a Looney Toons cartoon released in January 1957. The animated short is called Three Little Bops, a hep-cat jape of The Three Little Pigs. Instead of a straight retelling of the children's fable, the cartoon features three porkers as hat-clad hipster musicians who struggle to fend off a tin-eared, trumpet-playing …
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