Cool jazz
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Cool jazz is a jazz style developed in the late 1940s and during the 1950s at New York primarily from 'californian' white musicians, when they after the second worldwar moved to New York in 1946 - there discussing and rehearsing with mostly black musicians from the New York bop-groups. The Claude Thornhill Orchestra with the arranger Gil Evans, on the other side Lennie Tristano with Billy Bauer and Warne Marsh recorded cool jazz as early as the late 1940s. Thornhill's most popular song "Snowfall" is still played today. Later on (1952 by Mulligan) cool jazz derived to the West coast jazz or West coast cool.
Along with the bebop movement developed during the 1940s, the 1950s ushered in a lighter, more romantic style of jazz called "cool." The roots of cool jazz can be traced back to various earlier styles.
Some other cool jazz artists:
- Miles Davis Nonet 1949/50 and with Gil Evans (1957-63)
- The Gil Evans Orchestra (during 1957-64)
- Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker
- Lee Konitz (with Tristano, Thornhill, Evans, Davis)
- Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond
- Stan Getz
- Chico Hamilton
- George Shearing
- Shelly Manne
- Modern Jazz Quartet
See also
External links
Samples
- [Download sample] of "Boplicity" ('Cleo Henry' aka Gil Evans) by the Miles Davis-Nonet from the album Birth of the Cool
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