MUSC 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Billy Eckstine, Red Rodney, Clifford Brown
13 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Cool jazz: a style of modern jazz music that arose in the united states after world war ii. It is characterized by relaxed tempos and lighter tone, in contrast to the tense and complex bebop style. Hard bop: a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or bop) music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing. In the 1950s, additional styles grew out of bebop cool jazz, hard bop, funk, avant-garde, and others: this led jazz historians to speak in terms of schools. Cool jazz: as cool jazz grew in popularity, it was usually associated with white musicians who relocated from the east coast to california where the (largely segregated) film studios offered them financial security with musical day jobs. Their collective style became known as west coast jazz.
