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Glenn Miller: The Godfather Of Bop?
by Richard Jessen
The idea of Glenn Miller being the godfather of bop at first sounds like the most outlandish of ideas. Yet this is just what he became. In 1939, Glenn Miller recorded the first evidence we have of what would become known as be-bop (later known as bop). Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary tells us that ...