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Various Artists: Vocal Blues & Jazz Volume Four 1938-1949

by Jim Sangrey
May 6, 2002

The 1940s were a pivotal decade for jazz. As they began, jazz was very much a popular music, with even the increasingly advanced work of Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins meeting with great popular approval. By 1949, the music had clearly been divided into “populist” and “art” camps. There was much audience crossover between the two, ...