Like Miles Davis, Monk was grouped with the beboppers but was not really of them.

Cops distrusted beboppers for three main reasons: The new breed of jazzmen were anti-establishment, they were confrontational in matters of race, and they had a fondness for heroin.

Though there's nothing like the real thing--and covers don't work for me except in rare cases like the Byrds or the Band doing Dylan, or doo-woppers and beboppers covering standards--overall the CD works if you're like me in not knowing Monk's oeuvre all that well.

Thus a 52nd Street "jazz war" was perceived between the beboppers and the traditionalists, categorically termed "moldy figs." In reality such a competition between older and younger musicians was not as contested as the jazz press portrayed; Burke points out mutual respect among older and younger musicians.

She is not simply presented as a "nurturer" to male beboppers but as a slightly older member of an experimental music community living in New York in the 1940s that shared her background in the territory bands and her interests in playing, writing, and discussing new musical ideas (111-14).

'Bebop,' he writes 'was about making disciplined imagination alive and answerable to the social change of its time,' and the style 'was where social responsiveness became individual expression, where the pleasures of shared identity met an intolerance for racist jive.' Beboppers and their fans even adopted the personae of intellectuals; goatees, berets and horned-rimmed glasses became the uniform of the subculture.

" 'Hipster' as much as meant Jewish," he writes of a somewhat random "avant-garde" that encompasses Jewish beboppers, beat poets, stand-up comedians and record producers (maybe for Buhle, but perhaps not for Norman Mailer, the erstwhile nice Jewish boy who wrote "The White Negro").

Claiming the power over words, one group proudly crowned itself Black Sheep while our Compton, California friends took a name that some would say mimicked the general disposition of the beboppers of the 1940s.

Burns also includes a photo of audience members looking baffled at the beboppers. These fans were not idiots, just pop music fans.

These were from an album called `The Weary Blues', in which he is backed by swing period musicians on one side, by beboppers on the other.

While bop was more complex and the musicians more rebellious than their antecedents, the impulse of these young white men toward jazz had as much to do with ideology as it did with a particular style of music: "The white beboppers of the forties were as removed from the society as Negroes, but as a matter of choice," as Amiri Baraka puts it (188).

Embraced by Generation Next and X, old school and new school, hip-hoppers and beboppers, the jazz police and gangster-rappers, Erykah Badu in one incredible year has leaped across musical fashion and beauty boundaries to become one of the top female singer/songwriters performing today.