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cool jazz
noun
- a restrained, fluid modern-jazz style of the 1950s, marked by intricate harmonic structures, de-emphasized dynamics, and carefully controlled phrasing and ensemble playing, often with a slight lagging behind the beat.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cool jazz1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
Watts — who died in London on Tuesday at 80 — was a misfit among misfits, a gentleman lost at sea with hungry pirates, a cool jazz mind in the world’s most insatiable rock-and-roll troupe.
From Washington Post
When I first encountered him in 1996, he was in New York, playing cool jazz with all the heart of his animated alter-ego.
From The Daily Beast
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