Hot jazz style with complicated melody lines improvised against often dissonant harmonies and complex rhythms. It was developed in New York in the 1940s and 1950s by Charlie Bird Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and other black musicians reacting against swing music.
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