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Wolfgang Haffner, Roberto Di Gioa – Kind of Cool (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:22 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
James Dean and Marlon Brando were the glamorous heroes of the silver screen in the 50s. Character actors, sex symbols, blasé eccentrics with a penchant for extravagance. Role models for the rebellious youth: the embodiment of cool. A new attitude towards life was spreading around the USA. ‘The Birth of the Cool’ also happened at the same time in the field of jazz, leading it to become the soundtrack of a generation. Miles Davis, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck and Chet Baker (the ‘James Dean of jazz’) gave jazz a whole new direction: the search for a special ‘cool’ atmosphere based on tone and space in jazz, on substantial melodies with a laid-back approach designed for the collective. But this music was never cold-cool, it was merely played and conceived with what one might call a cool head.
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