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Minton's and the birth of bebop
1941
118th Street, Harlem
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Monk, Gillespie and Charlie Christian played after-hours sessions here where the harmony got deliberately difficult to keep lesser players off the stand. What came out of it was bebop, and jazz stopped being dance music.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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