cool jazz
Noun
Meaning
jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
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Hard bop was developed in the mid-1950s, coalescing in 1953 and 1954; it developed partly in response to the vogue for cool jazz in the early 1950s, and paralleled the rise of rhythm and blues.
On an oft-quoted take of Parker's signature song, "Now's the Time", Davis takes a melodic solo, whose unbop-like quality anticipates the " cool jazz " period that followed.
He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast 's cool jazz scene.
West Coast jazz would run into such debts as would several forms of cool jazz, but bebop has hardly any such debts in the sense of direct borrowings.