Cool & West Coast
Cool jazz is a broad style of jazz music that developed following the Second World War, characterised by slower tempos and relaxed tone, as opposed to the more fast and complex sounds of bebop. The term 'cool jazz' overlaps between different approaches to jazz music; either bebop players who wanted to soften their sound a bit, players who ignored bebop altogether in favour of late-era swing music, or players in the California scene that gave way to the 'West Coast' sound. Prominent cool jazz players included Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Giuffre, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, and with his 'Birth of the Cool' album, Miles Davis.
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Oscar Peterson - Night Train
29th Mar 2021
Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson's most well-regarded album sees him showcasing his bebop chops while paying homage to his beginnings as the 'King Inside of Swing'.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet at Oberlin & Wilshire-Ebell
13th Jan 2020
Two classic Dave Brubeck Quartet concerts from 1953 find the pianist, with saxophonist Paul Desmond, forging the sound that would soon sell a million albums.
Popular Artists & Groups: Cool & West Coast
- Baker, Chet
- Brown, Ray
- Brubeck, Dave
- Carter, Ron
- Davis, Miles
- Desmond, Paul
- Evans, Bill
- Getz, Stan
- Gomez, Eddie
- Hall, Jim
- Hart, Billy
- Haynes, Roy
- Johnson, J.J.
- Jones, Philly Joe
- Jordan, Duke
- Konitz, Lee
- Lewis, John
- Marsh, Warne
- McKibbon, Al
- Morello, Joe
- Motian, Paul
- Mulligan, Gerry
- Ørsted Pedersen, Niels-Henning
- Pepper, Art
- Peterson, Oscar
- Richmond, Dannie
- Roach, Max
- Sims, Zoot
- Tatum, Art
- Thigpen, Ed
- Wright, Eugene
- Young, Lester
Recent Best Sellers: Cool & West Coast
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Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Eugene Wright (bass), Dave Brubeck (piano), Joe Morello (drums)
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
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The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
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Birth Of The Cool
Miles Davis
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Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
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Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Next 100 (Pre-1980)
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Chet Baker Re:imagined
Various Artists
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The Oscar Peterson Trio
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