THE WEST COAST X NEW JAZZ TYPE BEAT DIARIES

In the 1930s, Kansas City Jazz as exemplified by tenor saxophonist Lester Younger marked the transition from major bands to the bebop affect of the nineteen forties. An early nineteen forties design often known as "jumping the blues" or leap blues utilised compact combos, uptempo music and blues chord progressions, drawing on boogie-woogie in the 1