Ted Gioia

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"Even before the close of the 1940s, a reaction against the bop ethos could be heard on both the East Coast and West Coast. In time, this movement got a name -- "cool jazz.""

- Ted Gioia

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"Many jazz fans simply refer to [hard bop] as the Blue Note sound in deference to the recprd label most closely associated with the glory days of hard bop in the 1950s and 1960s."

- Ted Gioia

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"Cecil Taylor, one of the leaders of [the avant-garde jazz] movement, once made a revealing aside. "To feel" he explained, "is the most terrifying thing in this society." We should approach avant-garde jazz with his injunction in mind, striving to feel rather than merely intellectualize the music."