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Cool Jazz
- Genre family
- Jazz
- 1940s recordings
- 3
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Meet Cool Jazz
Cool Jazz is a branch of the Jazz family, with its own performance and recording traditions.
The clearest way to understand Cool Jazz is to hear how its rhythm, timbre and performance language change across artists and recordings.
Begin with Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis All Stars.
GENRE FAMILY
Its place in the genre family
Parent genreJazz
Current genreCool Jazz
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING
3 recordings1940s starting recordings
KEY ARTISTS
1940s artists
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
1940s albums
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