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Four Lives in the Bebop Business

by A.B. Spellman · 1985

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The careers of saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Jackie McLean, and pianists Cecil Taylor and Herbie Nichols, are probed to reveal the realities of being a Negro jazz musician in America.

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