From David Remnick’s profile of jazz expert Phil Schaap, DJ for Columbia University’s WKCR:
“…I was out on a Hundred and Fourteenth Street and I could hear [“Scrapple from the Apple”] playing from the buildings, from the open windows. That was a turning point in the station’s history. The insight was that Charlie Parker was at least tolerable to all people who liked jazz. If you idolized King Oliver, you could tolerate Charlie Parker, and if you think jazz begins with John Coltrane playing ‘Ascension’ you can still listen to Bird, too.”