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Bebop

Literal Translation
The style of jazz developed in New York in the early 1940s — complex, fast, intellectually demanding, improvisational. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie are the central figures. The emotional and intellectual vocabulary of Cowboy Bebop draws from this specific tradition.