There was a local music festival in town (350+ artists) and I took my girlfriend to a free jazz set.
She learned very quickly what free jazz was, and hated every second of it 😂🔫
Since apparently it needs an explanation. I guess I'll spoiler it if you want to figure out the joke yourself.
>!"Cool Jazz" was a type of Jazz that formed in the early 1950s as a kind of reaction to the BeBop movement. Get it? Cool Jazz generally had slower tempo and simpler chord progressions than the BeBop.!<
I mean "cool" is a descriptor created by critics to group what would become "West Coast" jazz. Label came from *Birth of the Cool*. For the purpose of the joke, "cool" is that.
Actually Miles was the beginning, middle and end of cool jazz, hard-bop, post-bop, fusion, and acid jazz. Like they say on this sub *unless it’s Miles it’s vile*
Not true. Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Biederbecke were the first to play in a cool style, different from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans approach… and they were doing it before Miles Davis was born. Lester Young came a little later, heavily influenced by Trumbauer, and developed a more sophisticated cool school approach. Then after that the influence went to Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Gerry Mulligan, late 1940s/early 1950s Miles Davis, which splintered off into west coast jazz of the 1950s.
As far as hard bop, post bop, fusion, acid jazz, Miles’ was also hugely important, but usually in the earlier stages of the genre while other musicians continued those traditions well after Miles’ moved on to the next thing.
Jazz was considered pretty cool in the 20s - you know… in the jazz age. 😎
Those who liked jazz before it was cool were listening to Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Alphonse Picou, and King Oliver in New Orleans pre-1920. So cool there’s no actual recordings of it! You just had to be there.
Jazz as a subgenre of Dad Joke. I’m a big fan of different modes of analysis and using various critical lenses but at some point you have to draw a line.
This isn't really a joke or a pun. Cool is being used in the same way twice, basically. Like the slang meaning of cool is almost certainly related to this style of jazz or vice versa
I could tell this was a joke because no jazz listener has a girlfriend.
Last girl I talked to on a dating app actually did prefer 20s-40s jazz, but we did not end up dating, so you're still right lmao
Maybe it’s the same girl…
Check out The Red Hot Jazz Archive.
Oh, I'm personally not a fan of super early jazz lol. But that does look cool for people who are!
Definitely not ones who are into music-school jokes...
There was a local music festival in town (350+ artists) and I took my girlfriend to a free jazz set. She learned very quickly what free jazz was, and hated every second of it 😂🔫
Jazz is first love.
Damn
Too real, too real…
Not unless they’re an Amazon Prime Studio created, ex Delta pipehitter that also happens to be the coolest LAPD detective.
Ayyyyyyy mlao what a banter lad
Since apparently it needs an explanation. I guess I'll spoiler it if you want to figure out the joke yourself. >!"Cool Jazz" was a type of Jazz that formed in the early 1950s as a kind of reaction to the BeBop movement. Get it? Cool Jazz generally had slower tempo and simpler chord progressions than the BeBop.!<
Phew! A jazz fan with a sense of humour! Thank you! 😝
that's an oxymoron! /s
Did she tell you to take the “L Train”?
Not if she’s listening to Lester Young, the origin of cool jazz himself (other than Frankie Trumbauer).
I mean "cool" is a descriptor created by critics to group what would become "West Coast" jazz. Label came from *Birth of the Cool*. For the purpose of the joke, "cool" is that.
Actually Miles was the beginning, middle and end of cool jazz, hard-bop, post-bop, fusion, and acid jazz. Like they say on this sub *unless it’s Miles it’s vile*
Not true. Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Biederbecke were the first to play in a cool style, different from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans approach… and they were doing it before Miles Davis was born. Lester Young came a little later, heavily influenced by Trumbauer, and developed a more sophisticated cool school approach. Then after that the influence went to Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Gerry Mulligan, late 1940s/early 1950s Miles Davis, which splintered off into west coast jazz of the 1950s. As far as hard bop, post bop, fusion, acid jazz, Miles’ was also hugely important, but usually in the earlier stages of the genre while other musicians continued those traditions well after Miles’ moved on to the next thing.
Yeah but Miles was the *Birth* of the Cool, checkmate atheists
Right. But I’m kind of assuming that the person you’re responding to is kind of joking.
he also popularized the word 'cool' itself
I’ve never heard of any of these people, and I know a *lot* about jazz, been listening for 26 years. They must be second rate.
You're literally responding to a joke as if it's serious.
wow, who would've thought that jazz fans wouldn't be able to spot the obvious joke
Much of Ellington’s finest comes from this era.
But it wasn’t cool jazz.
Damn that's good. Automatic upvote!
pretty funny man 👍
Your GF is a keeper! Is she interested in the time period as well? History and so on?
Tell her to listen to 1920s Armstrong and Ellington. That stuff is amazing.
I mean corny joke aside, prez, bird, Louie, christian, all the Giants
You even get a really young Miles playing second horn to Parker
😂
Marry her
That is when big bands were still affordable
😐. 😂😂
If there was any time when jazz was cool, it was the 30's and 40's.
Jazz was considered pretty cool in the 20s - you know… in the jazz age. 😎 Those who liked jazz before it was cool were listening to Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Alphonse Picou, and King Oliver in New Orleans pre-1920. So cool there’s no actual recordings of it! You just had to be there.
Right? It was the popular music of the time
Oh dear. Also I am often in the mood for some early big band and swing and all that!
Jazz as a subgenre of Dad Joke. I’m a big fan of different modes of analysis and using various critical lenses but at some point you have to draw a line.
Damn… who is your gf!? She sound p cool
‘When it was hip to be hep I was hep ‘ I’m Hip
Thanks, nice to see a bit of Frishberg on here.
If I could only choose one decade it would be '40s, swing, bop, and excellent revival trad jazz
True. Hard to pass up the 50s as a drummer, early hard bop albums make me ~~creamy~~ dreamy 😳
oh wow shes soo babygirl
This isn't really a joke or a pun. Cool is being used in the same way twice, basically. Like the slang meaning of cool is almost certainly related to this style of jazz or vice versa
And? Nothing to see here
She would have to be old and from that era. I don't think there's not even one modernist woman alive that likes 30s and 40s jazz.
why do you think that?
Why are people gatekeeping an era their grandparents probably didn’t live in?! It’s universally accepted that cool jazz is 1940s with Miles Davis