He was jazz's first hipster. He performed in sunglasses and coined and popularized phrases like "that's cool" and "you dig?" He always wore a suit and his trade

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Swingin' on the Bars was written to afford middle school general music students the opportunity to learn about America's original brand of classical music --jaz