The richest place in America's musical landscape is that fertile ground occupied by jazz. Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz—the bir
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Back in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that no one had ever heard before. T
From bebop pioneers Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to the groundbreaking modal experiments of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Giant Steps traces the backbone