West Coast jazz
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West Coast jazz refers to various styles of jazz music that developed around Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which featured a less frenetic, calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music tended to be more heavily arranged, and more often composition-based. While this style was prominent for a while, it was by no means the only style of jazz played on the West Coast, which exhibited more variety than could be conveyed by a simple name.
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See also
- List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians
- Black Hawk (nightclub)
- Chamber jazz
- GNP Crescendo Records
- The Haig
- Third stream
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