Bebop and Bluegrass.I care little, for either Earl Scruggs or Bird,now I know why. Id rather have Miles Davis and the stanley brothers OR EVEN BETTER Bix Beiderbecke and charlie poole.
musicians should be able to express emotion,for me Scruggs is a musical typewriter,and Bird is on some idosyncratic, intellectual musical trip.
jazz is not at the root of the old APPALACHIAN MUSIC ,most of it came from Scotland, England, Ireland,THE APPALACHIAN MUSIC was supposed to have spawned bluegrass, in fact I have a book of Flatt AND Scruggs,their music is described on it as Folk Music with an overdrive.