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I can understand the annoyance with the word "cool" but let's hear some more about the concept. For instance, the tobacco ads all want young people to think smoking is "cool". Let's hear some analysis of how they convey this concept.
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well, the most blatantly obvious is "Kool" brand cigs, supposedly so-named because of mentholation, but we know better.
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don't confuse the hippies with the beats; it was the latter who are associated with cool jazz.
au contraire, mein freund, the beatnik look with the beret and goatee was first popularized by Dizzy Gillespie, who was the big name in bebop, or hot jazz. Cool jazz didn't come around until Miles Davis, who didn't like playing music at break-neck speeds, formed a group and cut the album Birth of the Cool. Beatniks were originally worshippers of bebop, which is the exact opposite of cool jazz.
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For instance, the tobacco ads all want young people to think smoking is "cool". Let's hear some analysis of how they convey this concept.
They don't. It's illegal. The 1998 Tobacco Settlement outlawed cigarette advertizing on billboards, anywhere near schools or in magazines associated with children. They're also not allowed to use cartoon characters like that stupid camel anymore to market to children.
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Charlie Parker's "Cool Blues" anticipated Miles by about two years. it's all in the semantics: "1950 Christian Sci. Monitor 8 Feb. 15 Bop is ‘cool’ jazz in contrast to the ‘hot’ variety of the swing or Dixieland schools."
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Charlie Parker's "Cool Blues" anticipated Miles by about two years.
But what Charlie Parker played is by no means considered Cool Jazz according to the definition of the genre.
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Cool Jazz according to the definition of the genre.
OK, JazzO, while your toiling away at your studies (ahem!) could you LIU and give the definition of cool jazz versus hot jazz as genres?
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OK, JazzO, while your toiling away at your studies (ahem!) could you LIU and give the definition of cool jazz versus hot jazz as genres?
Well, hot jazz (Bebop) is the fast-paced, fit-in-as-many-notes-as-possible-in-the-shortest-amount-of-time music. Most people don't like bebop because it's just kind of hard to listen to. Swing fans were appalled by bebop.
"Bebop has set music back twenty years" - Tommy Dorsey
"That's got nothing to do with jazz. That's Chinese music" - Louis Armstrong
Cool jazz came as a direct opposite to bebop because Miles Davis knew that he couldn't continue to try to play "faster, higher and hotter". He originally played with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie but just couldn't keep up so he started using a much slower, more melodic style. The Birth of the Cool "was an ethereal, drifting music that used French horns, complex arrangements and delicately woven solos." Miles decided that he would play "lower, slower and cooler" than anyone else.
Is that sufficient?
(Quotes from Jazz for Beginners by Ron David)
And what do you mean by "studies (ahem!)"? It's Saturday.
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One last time. Suppose an extra-terrestrial joined this board, how would you define cool to him?
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jazzo, (who's living up to his nom de guerre) I can agree with you that cool jazz to most musicians and students denotes the understated, behind-the-beat style typified by the arrangements and soloists on the Davis records. but the keyword (as always) is "most". the Bird thought his Blues were Cool. me too.
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