[Dixielandjazz] Re: Playing Cool- a short history - YES, CA

Nancy Giffin nancyink@ulink.net
Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:23:52 -0500


> From: Stephen Barbone <barbonestreet@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Working Hard At Playing Cool (a short history)
> [snippet]
> ... He must have been in California listening to some jazz of the "Cool
> School," popular in the 50s...

I'm too ignorant for this list, but here to learn.

Thanks, Steve, and you are right: This was CA; Los Angeles, to be exact.

I like what Jim Denham wrote, too. Thanks.

Yes, trad can be incredibly cool when it's hot.