What is Cool Jazz, Anyway? 

Cool jazz was more appealing to the average listener who did not like bebop. The reaction to cool jazz was a style called hard bop

I love how he smiles at 1:50 from his own piano riff. You can feel his enthusiasm for the genre.

That's a rotary-valve flugelhorn. Very cool!!☺

@tptvox Sadly, Billy left us last December. But thankfully, the great Jimmy Owens is still here and will soon receive the NEA Jazz Master Award, which he so richly deserves.

jazz is my best friend

And now I know the style of jazz used on so many Peanuts cartoons.

A very knowledgeable pianist. It shows up in his playing. Great performance by Jimmy Owens.

Quotation The Christmas Song by Jimmy.

Never seen a rotary valve flugelhorn before but that definitely is one. It's even named as a flugelhorn in the next video. Very nice.

That's cool.. im not sure what you call it.. a slide maybe, that's surely easier on a piston valve instrument, rather than a rotary, due to the length of stroke to actuate.. I don't think my old rotary trumpet could do them (or it wasnt easy), meanwhile it was easy on a Conn 56b.

Tbh didnt think he was gonna sit down at the piano and then play it like a boss

After listening to this sweet performance of Jimmy Owens, I have bought a rotary flugelhorn today. Thank you for sharing!

A great pianist and teacher. RIP

Bebop or nothing at all ! Harlem World baby !

@JazzVideoGuy Wonderful! I got goosebumps listening to them play. :-)

Cool is cool Sooo coool!!!!!! Swinging it Beautiful all of you and Jimmy your mellow groove is intoxicating!!!

Nobody played smoother than LESTER "PREZ" YOUNG!!!

i don't know. in a very shallow sense, you have a point. but the longer you listen to jazz, the more capable you are in describing the different approaches and attitudes jazz music can take on. cool jazz is definitely the reaction to bebop. west and east coast jazz are different. there is as much culture, tradition, style and heritability in jazz as there is individuality and persona.

"Cool" is not a reaction to bebop. There was never a reaction to bebop. Charlie Parker's feeling and musical vocabulary influenced everybody. This is a music of individuals. The greatest ones at that time were Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano. Musicians at that time - the late forties to the early fifties - were influenced by both of them.

oh come on. by that sense their is no way of even roughly dividing up types of music. that's just unpractical. yeah, their isn't any hard and fast way of classifying music as cool jazz, be-bop, rock, folk or any other "type" of music. but they are undeniably different in many ways. labeling music as "cool jazz" or any other type of music for that matter is an extremely useful and practical way of talking about music. as I said before - come on mate, get over it.

@tptvox Me, too!

Wow, you should put this in a playlist so I can start from the beginning. A great series on the history of jazz.

LOVE IT 🎉❤😃

Which video is this from?

I was watching some Barry Harris videos as well as having seen him play live countless times in the early 70s and beyond and to me, he's still playing the hip shit; it may sound even hipper nowadays because a lot these newer cats who play jazz don't seem to go back far enough, in terms of the trumpet. They all seem to stop at Miles after he became a soloist. Miles is still one of the greats, of course. The saxes are a little different for me in terms of this discussion. It's just my personal opinion.

So awesome... so cool ;)

It's jazz with no edge

Thank you for posting this! What a nice reference

Beautiful!!!! Can you come lecture to my class? (I wish we could afford it)

@oxonhillmsband They don't make rotary flugelhorns?

cool jazz is really nice

reminds me of an album my father had... Big Blues by Art Farmer and Jim Hall

diggin the Lew Wasserman glasses lol

Cool jazz is jazz that's cool.

Excellent! That's for posting this!

QUAL É O NOSSO DESSE TEMA ALGUEM PODE DIZER????

Didn"t know Morpheus could play like that

is that chip jackson on bass?

It's been a long, long time since this was posted, but does anyone know, by any chance, when this show/concert was emmited? Kinda need it for a class project

love this kind of jazz

Who wrote Boplicity?

@bluesky810 agree

well taught.

ya like jazz

Nice!

Recorded when?

Excellent!

Also, with the exception of Miles, Blakey, maybe Trane (although he's in his own category in many ways), and one or two others, the term "Cool", it now seems to me, was just another way of commercializing, packaging and exploiting jazz for the bourgeois whom did not really know or understand but looked down on the real shit socially, intellectually. But, everyone has their own tastes.

"Cool Jazz" is just a label. It means nothing. It is a way of selling something. Jazz is an art form of individuals. Charlie Parker did not play "bebop"; He played Charlie Parker. Lennie Tristano did not play "cool" jazz. He played Lennie Tristano.

Jimmy’s solo 5:53

1:52 he fucked up

What a load of crap. "Cool" is a completely meaningless term. It is a label invented by critics who are unable to distinguish one player from another.

If it means something to you, fine. To me, it is a bunch of bs concocted by people who can't really feel music.