The musician was a leading hard-bop trumpeter - a jazz extension of bebop - in the mid-1950s.

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Eckstine's sensibilities were too hot for what was desirable in the 1940s and 1950s, while his talents--as a voice and band leader, but not a musician who could actually play bebop or rock and roll--were too limited for the eras that followed.

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McLean was a musical bridge between post-World War II bebop and the progressive jazz of the 1960s.

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They didn't really have a name for the mixture of Afro-Cuban music and bebop.

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Musically, his career blazed a long and brilliant trail from bebop with Charlie Parker to epoch-making cool jazz, orchestral suites with arranger Gil Evans and landmark quintets which launched such young stars as John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.

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He was one of the key musicians in the mollification of bebop: he liked to swing, in a way which might even have seemed old-fashioned to some of the hardcore boppers, but which had its own kind of fiery beauty.

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