Ted Gioia

"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.""

"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."

"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."