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Cool Jazz: Cool Jazz followed the Bebop era, becoming popular in the 1940's. After the chaotic rhthyms and melody lines in bop music jazz musicians began experimenting with slower, more relaxed styles of jazz. This was called Cool Jazz, for the relaxed and pensive feel to the music. Jazz was now beginnig to loose its African feel as it was being "diluted" with every genreation of jazz musicans that were born and raised in Americ. This made Cool Jazz very popular with white musicans, keeping in mind that racism was still alive and well at this time. Cool Jazz intorduced us to performers such as the famous Miles Davis. the St. Louis trumpeter.
"Jazz is freedom. You think about that."—Thelonius Monk
Free Jazz: Free jazz followed cool jazz. It was a different style of jazz music, not focusing on composition ion but on a strange abstract part of jazz involving a lot of improvisation that had not been explored before. It introduced us to famous jazz artists such as reknown pianist John Coltrane. Free Jazz was not as popular as the other types of jazz music when it first emerged. Unlike the other styles it did not follow patterns or melody lines that the ear would usually pick up on. It was in itself an entirely different form of jazz music. This link shows the John Coltrane Quartet who were known for their jree jazz music. When you listen to the piece it is clear that this is a completely different style of playing, for instance the melody line is almost all over the place and difficult to follow unlike music form the Bebop or Cool Jazz eras. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM5Xa79ndmg&feature=related
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