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Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music inspired by bebop and big band[1] 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.[2] As Paul Tanner, Maurice Gerow, and David Megill suggest, "the tonal sonorities of these conservative players could be compared to pastel colors, while the solos of [Dizzy] Gillespie and his followers could be compared to fiery red colors."[3]

Cool jazz

1940s, United States

The term cool started being applied to this music around 1953, when Capitol Records released the album Classics in Jazz: Cool and Quiet.[4] Mark C. Gridley, writing in the All Music Guide to Jazz, identifies four overlapping sub-categories of cool jazz:

Chamber jazz

List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians

List of jazz genres

Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde, Simon and Schuster, 2001. ISBN 0-684-81354-8

MacAdams, Lewis

Archived 2015-02-19 at the Wayback Machine, edited by Ted Gioia (Jazz.com)

A History of Cool Jazz in 100 Tracks

allmusic Cool Jazz

Forever Cool: Cool and West Coast Jazz on the Internet

by Len Weinstock.

The Birth of the Cool 1927

(Pacific Jazz) - Mosaic Records

Origins of Cool Jazz