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The Night Bebop Walked Into Carnegie Hall

On September 29, 1947, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie performed at Carnegie Hall in a concert that marked bebop's arrival in the mainstream concert world, but the music refused to soften its terms. With John Lewis on piano, Al McKibbon on bass, and Joe Harris on drums, the quintet played the core bebop repertoire, claiming the hall's cultural prestige without conceding the music's structural complexity.