cool jazz

collocation in English

meaningsofcoolandjazz

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cool
adjective
uk
/kuːl/us
/kuːl/
slightly ...
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jazz
noun[U]
uk
/dʒæz/us
/dʒæz/
a type of modern music originally developed by African-Americans, with a rhythm in which the strong notes often come before the beat. Jazz is usually improvised (= invented as it ...
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(Definition ofcoolandjazzfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Initially it started off as an instrumental group playing folk inspiredcooljazz.
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That said, he did have some difficulties adjusting to the bebop era; he simply preferred traditional and swing styles to the newercooljazz.
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Players who were more influenced by traditional orcooljazzstreams tended to dominate public attention and some moved successfully into academia.
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As the title implies, these recordings are considered seminal in the history ofcooljazz.
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Immensely popular in the early 1960s, it was a fusion of samba andcooljazz.
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With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would becomecooljazz.
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She mostly worked in bebop andcooljazz.
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Slovak popular music began as a mix of bossa nova,cooljazz, and rock, with propagandistic lyrics.
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Their advertising slogan was swing pretty hard with somecooljazz.
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Playing in this way he was not only a model forcooljazzbut also influenced countless bar combos.
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Raney has worked in a variety of jazz mediums, includingcooljazz, bebop, post bop, hard bop and mainstream jazz.
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Hard bop was developed in the mid-1950s, partly in response to the vogue forcooljazzin the early 1950s.
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The influence on bossa nova of jazz styles such ascooljazzis often debated by historians and fans, but a similar cool sensibility is apparent.
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