> An unexpected side effect was the end of the big band era An unexpected side effect was to contribute to the shift away from big bands dominating the musical

> An unexpected side effect was the end of the big band era An unexpected side effect was to contribute to the shift away from big bands dominating the musical scene, during/after a world war and changing tastes in music and music-making. In other words, the strike hastened a trend. And keep in mind that the troops themselves had access to the newest jazz recordings, as mentioned earlier in the same article you're citing: "As the strike progressed, limited recordings (called Victory Discs, or V-Discs) could be made solely for servicemen, as long as they weren’t distributed commercially." IIRC, some of those V-Discs featured early bebop performers. Like bop, big band in general had already been getting faster-- often not even dance-able-- and more dissonant-- to the point of becoming avant-garde. By the end of the decade, in 1949, you already had Miles Davis' Boplicity and Israel, and those trends were never going to sustain a popular music industry, especially with the advent of television (where, according to the article you cited, Petrillo negotiated again for musicians' royalties). In any case, Petrillo apparently had balls of steel. Everyone on HN should read that article, if only to get an idea of the work it would take to get remunerated fairly when a cluster of GPUs can be trained to do all your future work.