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Mainstream jazz
Genre of jazz music / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mainstream jazz is a term coined in the 1950s by music journalist Stanley Dance, who considered anything within the popular jazz of the Swing Era "mainstream",[1] and did not include the bebop style.
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