Jasmine Records Various Artists - Bop-In' Britain Vol 2 - Getting' The Message CD

Volume I of Bop-In' Britain showed, in general terms, the almost surreptitious way in which the new trend in American jazz permeated our consciousness; the younger musicians, in the main, taking to it like the proverbial duck/water whilst the majority of the established bands men and/or swing musicians were far more cautious. This album, in continuing the story, shows that by the early 1950s, in spite of what was now little more than passive resistance from the earlier musical generation and, of course, the very vocal but ridiculous Trad-v-Modern lobby of those days, a growing number of working and highly articulate young musicians were showing that bebop had become their natural mode of jazz expression.