#Bebop represented the key shift from popular music to #art from. Stan Getz was initially lambasted for #JazzSamba. #Bird too for recording with strings! #LeeKonitz, of all people, was accused of abandoning the ‘true path’! James Moody, arguably among the finest players of bebop with #Gillespie’s 1965 Quintet, totally hammed it up. Un derrated #JohnHandyIII too. My view is that Bird,Moody, Handy worked through appalling, humiliating civil rights abuses. So, #SoWhat

What. A. Photo. #CharlieMingus #Quintet at the #FiveSpot (I think). Worth noting #JohnHandyIII in the middle between Mingus and Booker Ervin. #JHIII was absolutely superb on alto. Difficult to overstate how good he was. Few have heard of him. #Jazz