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Mainstream jazz
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<p>Mainstream jazz is a term coined in the 1950s by music journalist <a href="/facts/Stanley_Dance/15KvwMvI">Stanley Dance</a>, who considered anything within the popular jazz of the <a href="/facts/Swing_Era/Pa5ApjbR">Swing Era</a> "mainstream", and did not include the <a href="/facts/Bebop/Q6suehVl">bebop</a> style. </p>