Perfection: Lennie Tristano - 'Wow' (1949)

Between bebop in the mid- and late-1940s and hard bop in the mid-1950s and beyond, an exciting but short-lived jazz style surfaced known as cool. The movement was a product of formally educated jazz musicians who, at the tail end of the '40s, integrated classical and jazz. The artists had started out in bop but chose to create a form that was independen…