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Many jazz fans simply refer to [hard bop] as the Blue Note sound in deference to the record label most closely associated with the glory days of hard bop in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Even before the close of the 1940s, a reaction against the bop ethos could be heard on both the East Coast and West Coast. In time, this movement got a name -- "cool jazz."

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