1. Cool jazz is a term for modern styles that sound more subdued than the bebop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
2. Count Basie and Lester Young were important influences on the cool jazz styles.
3. Pianist Lennie Tristano, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, and trumpeter Miles Davis were among the first jazz musicians to devise styles that came to be called "cool".
4. The nine-piece band that Miles Davis recorded in 1949 and 1950 became known as the "Birth of the Cool" band.
5. Lee Konitz and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan played in the "Birth of the Cool Band" with Miles Davis.
6. While in California Mulligan began leading a series of quartets that did not use piano. Because of their location and sound, he is still identified with the label "West Coast Jazz" or "cool jazz"
7. Pianist Dave Brubeck was the most famous cool jazz musician. His quartet performed and recorded from 1951 to 1967.
8. Stan Kenton led the best-known string of modern jazz big bands. Many of his musicians were associated with cool jazz.