A Masterpiece by Midnight
During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide the music into "schools" - Dixieland, swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young people are listening to rock 'n' roll.
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The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before.
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