frogman
I appreciate your perspective in poInting out the evolutionary process of jazz from swing to bebop. Nothing happens in a vacuum. I had forgotten about the AFOM strike but now remember reading about it. IF there had been recordings from 1942-1944 perhaps this evolutionary process would have been further documented on record(s). And you did not say that either the 1939 or 1944 Coleman Hawkins recording was THE first bebop recording.
But to try and answer pjw's question (which is not easy) would you go with musician's such as Parker & Gillespie , who had a fully developed bebop style or the earlier 1944 recording which had elements of bebop but not the full rhythm style as Hawkins was a swing player who, as we discussed previously , never fully broke out of that earlier style ?Tough choice.And I am sure there were other guys working in this new jazz style at that time who did not have the opportunity to get it down on record.
I appreciate your perspective in poInting out the evolutionary process of jazz from swing to bebop. Nothing happens in a vacuum. I had forgotten about the AFOM strike but now remember reading about it. IF there had been recordings from 1942-1944 perhaps this evolutionary process would have been further documented on record(s). And you did not say that either the 1939 or 1944 Coleman Hawkins recording was THE first bebop recording.
But to try and answer pjw's question (which is not easy) would you go with musician's such as Parker & Gillespie , who had a fully developed bebop style or the earlier 1944 recording which had elements of bebop but not the full rhythm style as Hawkins was a swing player who, as we discussed previously , never fully broke out of that earlier style ?Tough choice.And I am sure there were other guys working in this new jazz style at that time who did not have the opportunity to get it down on record.