Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music inspired by bebop and big band that arose in the United States after World War II. It is characterized by relaxed tempos and a lighter tone than that used in the fast and complex bebop style. Cool jazz often employs formal arrangements and incorporates elements of classical music. Broadly, the genre refers to a number of post-war jazz styles employing a more subdued approach than that of contemporaneous jazz idioms.

Quotes about cool jazz

  • Even before the close of the 1940s, a reaction against the bop ethos could be heard on both the East Coast and West Coast. In time, this movement got a name -- "cool jazz."
    • Ted Gioia How to Listen to Jazz. page 126. Basic Books.
  • Birth of the Cool, recorded in 1949 but released under that title in 1957, took jazz in a sharply different direction than bebop. As the title suggests, the original 78s of this session were the birth of “cool jazz,” although Miles ceeded the genre and much of the credit for creating it to Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan because he spent the four years after its recording addicted to heroin.
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