Music historian: Some critics lament the fact that impoverished postwar recording studios forced early bebop musicians to record extremely short solos, thus leaving a misleading record of their music  But these musicians' beautifully concise playing makes the recordings superb artistic works instead of mere representations of their live solos
Furthermore, the conciseness characteristic of early bebop musicians' recordings fostered a compactness in their subsequent live playing, which the playing of the next generation lacks
Short bebop recordings are always superior to longer ones.