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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LawManlikesTheKing" data-source="post: 2161905" data-attributes="member: 765573">...narrow-minded error of music fans? To draw circles around what they like and think that other forms of music are somehow bad music or improper music."These divergences from the jazz mainstream of the time [The Development of Bebop Jazz] initially met with a divided, sometimes hostile response among fans and fellow musicians, especially established swing players, who bristled at the new harmonic sounds. To hostile critics, bebop seemed to be filled with "racing, nervous phrases".[50] Despite the initial friction, by the 1950s bebop had become an accepted part of the jazz vocabulary. The most influential bebop musicians included saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianists Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown, and drummer Max Roach."  (Source: Wikipedia 'Jazz' article).</blockquote>