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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
Oh, nice suggestion. I'm going to need to check this guy out.
On another note, I didn't know hipsters listened to jazz. I thought they listened to proto-noise-electronic-ska-post-pop-industrial?
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I'll reply with a quote from my earlier post :
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Originally Posted by tore
Hipster has meant so many things since the word first came about and the hipster I'm referring to is this one 
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia's article on Hipster (1940s subculture)
Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes.
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And Bill Evans is great
There are many lovely jazz records in his discography. One I've enjoyed recently is a release of him and Chet Baker playing together called The Complete Legendary Sessions. This version of Time on my Hands is one of the songs on the record (the uploader got the title slightly wrong it seems).
Very laid back