Jazz credibility debates were framed as a contest of hipness

Evidence

Gillespie announced that they were going to play five tunes at once. After the first number, Diz gleefully suggested that they play blues. Ask anyone who was there who carved whom. The answer will depend on their hipness or, as Lord Buckley used to say, ‘his double hipness.’” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 177

Categorization

• DEFINE: “Double hipness” as an insider-beatnik term for how scene members adjudicated aesthetic clashes.