Swing to Bop
Subtitle: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 28, 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780195050707
First sentence: In the period from the early '30s to the war years, the big bands were king and inspired the same adulation that rock bands enjoy today.