... the next jazz movement, cool jazz. Cool jazz was a striking contrast to the more traditional jazz popular during the forties. It was characterized by experimentation with musical tones, keys, and modes, improvising on scales rather than on sequences of chords, producing music that at times was very bizarre, but none the less popular. This new movement was the beginning of an ... described the sound for which he was in search of was like holding a seashell to his ear. "However one describes the strange sound, it contained some essential truth for him, existing as an omnipresent backgroun...

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