Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65

With this kind of pedigree, the music was expected to shock (and sometimes even bewilder) the general public,

Third Stream, which aimed at nothing less than a large-scale merging of the classical and jazz idioms into a new hybrid.

A few renegades resisted this process of simplification—most notably Duke Ellington,

cool jazz.’ The contrast with bebop could hardly be more striking.

By the 1960s, jazz had earned an unprecedented degree of legitimacy and cultural cachet.