Cool Jazz

Cool jazz is a jazz style that emerged in the late 1940s in New York City. During 1945, after the Second World War, there was an influx of Californian (predominantly white) jazz musicians to New York. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: The Dave Brubeck Quartet

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jeanfmayer wrote:
July 2009

Geez, people! Just let the beauty of this music speak, and enjoy!

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MirkoFait wrote:
April 2009

Sad Eyes' Child ;)

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TowerFestival wrote:
April 2009

2009 marks the 50th Anniversary of the original release date of Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue. Legendary jazz drummer, Jimmy Cobb (the only surviving member from the original recording) leads a contemporary all-star band featuring Wallace Roney (trumpet), Javon Jackson (tenor saxophone), Vincent Herring (alto saxophone), Larry Willis (piano), and Buster Williams (bass.) The group will perform their interpretations of Kind of Blue’s five masterpieces: “So What”, “Freddie Freeloader”, “Blue In Green”, “All Blues”, and “Flamenco Sketches” plus other classics by Davis, John Coltrane, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, and original compositions inspired by this era. Go to www.towerfestival.com for information and tickets

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dante_portinari wrote:
April 2009

Cool jazz certainly is a genre.

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smile_x wrote:
March 2009

hui hui may I pragmatically agree with both of you? or maybe suggest "cool jazz" for that particular genré, and "cool" and "jazz" for just anything else that feels somehow jazzy and cool ...

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DetroitSoulJazz wrote:
January 2009

You're such a ridiculous besserwisser, SirAlec, but mostly you are wrong. Cool Jazz doesn't mean anything particular per se more than that the signator assign as its contextual meaning. What you're refering to WAS the movement denoted as "cool jazz" in the late 40s and early 50, but there is no necessary connection between the "sign" and the "signified", particularly not in this musical context. You could as easily use the labe "west coast jazz" for that particular genré. Cultural concepts are flexible and not static, as you. Go somewhere else with your elitist approach. Form a group: "rigid acontextualists," or something!

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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
August 2008

what a pity, people don't know what COOL JAZZ means because they tag it all over the place if a tune sounds "cool" and "jazzy".

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