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Cool jazz is a jazz style that emerged in the late 1940s in New York City.

Contents 1 History 2 Cool jazz artists 3 See also 4 External links 5 Samples

[edit] History

In 1946, after the Second World War, there was an influx of Californian (predominantly white) jazz musicians to New York. Once there, these musicians mixed with the mostly African-American bop musicians, but being heavily influenced by swing musicians such as Lester Young (Prez) and Coleman Hawkins (Bean), incorporated a mellower tone. The product, cool jazz, was a lighter, more romantic style of jazz than Be-Bop; cool jazz took a relaxed, simple approach to rhythm while preserving the harmonic ideas of bop. The Claude Thornhill Orchestra with the arranger Gil Evans recorded cool jazz as early as the late 1940s; Thornhill's most popular song, "Snowfall", is still played today. Other cool musicians of the 1940's included Lennie Tristano and his colleagues Billy Bauer and Warne Marsh. The style grew more prevalent in the 1950's, attracting the attention of musicians like Miles Davis, whose recordings Birth of the Cool (1957) and Kind of Blue (1959) became among the most popular jazz albums ever produced.

[edit] Cool jazz artists

• Miles Davis Nonet 1949/50 and with Gil Evans (1957-63)
• The Gil Evans Orchestra (1957-64)
• Bill Evans
• Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker
• Lee Konitz (with Tristano, Thornhill, Evans, Davis)
• Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond
• Stan Getz
• Chico Hamilton
• George Shearing
• Vince Guaraldi
• Shelly Manne
• Modern Jazz Quartet
• Lester Young

[edit] See also

• West coast jazz
• Modal Jazz

[edit] External links

• Forever Cool: Cool and West Coast Jazz on the Internet
• Jazz History - Cool

[edit] Samples

• Download sample of "Boplicity" ('Cleo Henry' aka Gil Evans) by the Miles Davis-Nonet from the album Birth of the Cool

Jazz | Jazz genres

Acid jazz - Asian American jazz - Avant-garde jazz - Bebop - Dixieland - Calypso jazz - Chamber jazz - Cool jazz - Free jazz - Gypsy jazz - Hard bop

Jazz blues - Jazz-funk - Jazz fusion - Jazz rap - Latin jazz - Mini-jazz - Modal jazz - M-Base - Nu jazz - Smooth jazz - Soul jazz - Swing - Trad jazz - West coast jazz

Other topics

Musicians - Jazz standard - Jazz royalty - jazz band(big band)

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