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Previewing New York’s Winter Jazz Fest

By Rebecca Dalzell

 |  Globe correspondent  

  January 01, 2012

When Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker helped invent bebop in the 1940s, some found their dissonant harmonies and fractured rhythms hard to sit through. But those who stuck around caught something infectious. Music unique to the time and city, it just felt right. Many clubs preserve the music of that era, but its spirit has moved on. It’s wherever musicians are experimenting and finding their own voice. To hear the sound of New York jazz, you have to be ready for surprises.

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