Cool Jazz Explained

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This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Cool Jazz.

There are two ways to play Jazz – you could either play Hot or play Cool. These two undercurrents or approaches to playing Jazz had been around since more or less the beginning of Jazz, but it was only in the 1950’s that playing ‘cool’ became a genre in itself.

Now, if you ask any scientist they’ll tell you, that hot things have a lot of energy, while cool things do not. And it’s the same with Jazz – Hot Jazz was high energy Jazz, while Cool Jazz, being the opposite of Hot, was low energy.

Cool Jazz arose in the 1950’s as a reaction to Bebop (which was Hot). Bebop was fast, loud, heavy, angular, high pitched, high energy and dense. Cool Jazz tried to do the exact opposite – it was slow, soft, light, lyrical, low pitched, low energy and sparse.

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