Cool Jazz Influence

Cool jazz is type of style of music that brought up from the United States after World War II. Cool jazz became popular during 1949-1959 and was considered the forefront of its time. What made Cool Jazz so diverse in its nature was its soft tempos and light tone. Cool Jazz was known for its large venue of players in a band, its mixed instruments and smooth rhythm. Jazz musicians at the time where moving away from the complexity of improvised solos and into a more arrangement and compression. Cool Jazz earned its named from the press, journalist and record companies. They all started calling it “cool” which earned its named “Cool Jazz”. This was an insult to Jazz artist because they didn’t like the press or record companies naming their own art form after what they though it should called. Artist during this time …show more content…
Davis was responsible for creating Cool Jazz, by organizing a recording session with a nine piece band in, New York. Which later became known as the “Birth of Cool Jazz” band and known as the first ever Cool Jazz band of its time. The others who helped influenced Cool Jazz era, where Chet Backer, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans. There are only few artist that influenced the Cool Jazz era, making Miles Davis one of them and the father of Cool Jazz. The concept and style of Cool Jazz was created in a New York Basement, by Gil Evans. Cool Jazz was influenced by Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans who all enjoyed playing subtle and lightweight notes together. Where it was the musician’s idea to mix and match different instruments together and see how there lightweight notes would sound with each other’s instruments. Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan created what is call the nonet, which would be later known as Miles Davis Nonet rhythm. At the time the only instruments they used was Piano, bass and drums also known as nonet rhythm. The two were looking for something more Mulling stating “We picked instruments [with matching timbres]... and