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Cool Jazz
- Genre family
- Jazz
- 1960s recordings
- 2
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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 The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Bill Smith and The Village Stompers.
GENRE FAMILY
Its place in the genre family
Parent genreJazz
Current genreCool Jazz
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING
2 recordings1960s starting recordings
KEY ARTISTS
1960s artists
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
1960s albums
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