Why wasn't much of the music that marked the transition from swing to bebop documented on recordings?

a. record company executives didn't understand this newer style of jazz
b. bebop musicians weren't interested in making any recordings
c. there was a musician's union strike in 1942 that led to a recording ban
d. wartime restrictions caused recording studios to shut down

d

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