Minton's Playhouse is a. the first headquarters for Jazz at the Philharmonic. b. a Dizzy Gillespie composition recorded in 1945. c. a Harlem jam session spot where bebop was founded. d. the Kansas City club where Charlie Parker played with Lester Young.

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Minton's Playhouse is a. the first headquarters for Jazz at the Philharmonic. b. a Dizzy Gillespie composition recorded in 1945. c. a Harlem jam session spot where bebop was founded. d. the Kansas City club where Charlie Parker played with Lester Young.

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c. a Harlem jam session spot where bebop was founded.

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It was founded by a saxophonist named Henry Milton in 1938. It became an important place for developing a new kind of jazz called bebop. Milton's Playhouse is a bar and jazz club which gained popularity in the early forties and located at Harlem. The leading musicians were Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Kenny Clarke.