medjuck Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 The LA Times this morning reprinted an article from the Baltimore Sun about the use of the word "cool". I couldn't get past the 3rd paragraph: "What is the reason for "cool's" longevity? That's an easy question for Keith Covington, jazz expert and owner of the New Haven Lounge in Baltimore. As long as Miles Davis' classic 1949 work, "Birth of the Cool," remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, "cool" will stay cool, he says. " News to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Lester Young generally gets credit for the word. And doesn;t he mean "Kind Of Cool"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Hard to believe that BIRTH OF THE COOL, great as it is, is the bestselling jazz album of alltime. Wouldn't it be KIND OF BLUE or TIME OUT? Or--blahhh--one of the Kenny G releases, if count such things we must? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 Source is a paper in Baltimore - too close to DC to be reliable! Just read Weezie's posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 I'm too much of a newbie to know Weezie...but the sales numbers and a report on the on-going sales of Kind of Blue were in Ashley Kahn's book about the session. Huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 The LA Times this morning reprinted an article from the Baltimore Sun about the use of the word "cool". I couldn't get past the 3rd paragraph: "What is the reason for "cool's" longevity? That's an easy question for Keith Covington, jazz expert and owner of the New Haven Lounge in Baltimore. As long as Miles Davis' classic 1949 work, "Birth of the Cool," remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, "cool" will stay cool, he says. " News to me. I read it as well, and was going to raise the same question. I think he is just plain wrong when it comes to the Birth of the Cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 I'd say the word "cool" in the non-temperature sense was probably kept alive for the majority of Americans in the 1970's by the Fonz. Aaayyyyy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Lester Young generally gets credit for the word. Not only that, he was the incarnation of coolness! The inventor of being cool. The opening scene of "Jammin' the Blues" where you realize it is his hat you've been viewing from the top only after he lifts his head, and the way he sits on his stool and plays his saxophone - that's as cool as can be! And the contrast to "hot" Illinois Jacquet, after he played his coolly swinging solo ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 Lemme quote from Clarece Major's "Juba to Jive - A Dictionary of African-American Slang": COOL: "gone out" (Mandingo); fast (Mandingo). The number of expression going back to African languages, especially Mandingo and Wolof, is amazing: Jive Hip or Hep Dig Okay Jazz and countless others ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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