Buddy DeFranco Hamilton College Interview Block 35 (Q2361)

It was the Pop music of the day and also a lot of people wondered why jazz didn't stay in that focal point, in that high area. When we started playing Bebop, I say "we" because I was a part of the Bebop era. And of course I heard Charlie Parker and that was it, I had to be a part of that. And rhythmically it was a little different and harmonically, and so we divorced seventy or eighty percent ...