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After hours, members of New York's big bands gather at after-hours spots in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. In a reaction to swing, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and their contemporaries create music that is fast and complex, and difficult to dance to.
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