Edition: Paperback, 1988

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Bebop was aggressive, provocative, and belligerent. Its proponents wore beads and berets and referred to the Dixieland and New Orleans diehards as "mildy figs," who in turn labeled the new jazz "the modern malice." But the boppers brought fresh melodic lines, startling rhythms, complex chords, and a new repertoire into jazz, and by the end of the forties, the "modly figs," were forced to concede that bop was indeed the harbinger of a new direction in Amercian jazz.

Critic Leonard Feather was one of the earliest and most persistent champions of bop. It was he who persuaded RCA Victor that the new music was worth recording. His Inside Jazz is a full-length account of bop: its origins and development and the personalities of the musicians innovative era in jazz history to life once more.

British expatriate Leonard Feather has been a jazz composer and critic since the early 1930s, when his by-line first appeared in the London Melody Maker. He has contributed to numerous magazines here and abroad, hosted a television show Feather on Jazz, and taught and lectured at countless jazz festivals and clinics. He may be best known for his monumental Encyclopedia of Jazz and Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixites, two reference works in the field.