West Coast Jazz
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West coast jazz is a form of jazz music that developed around Los Angeles at about the same time as hard bop jazz was developing in New York City, in the 1950s and 1960s. West Coast Jazz was generally seen as a subgenre of cool jazz.
It featured a less frenetic, calmer style than hard bop. The Pacific Jazz record label carried West coast jazz, while Blue Note was the biggest bebop label. Some of the major pioneers of West coast jazz were Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond.
Some jazz critics, such as French critic Hughes Panassie, looked down upon West Coast Jazz as inauthentic, due to most — but not all — musicians in the style being white. However, there were a sizable number of African American musicians who played in the style, such as Curtis Counce and Hampton Hawes.
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