New Ted Brown: 'Just You, Just Me'

Cool jazz started at the tail end of the 1940s and was a reaction of sorts to bebop’s saturation of the market. While bop was bluesy, furiously fast and wonderfully fractured and polyrhythmic, cool was drier, avoided the blues and vibrato, included elements of classical and was played largely by musicians who had been to music school on the G.I. Bill af…