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CECIL YOUNG (1920-1975) Pianist Cecil Young's quartet exploded onto the Seattle jazz scene in 1950, introducing the rhythmic fire of bebop to an eager new audience. His quartet's debut record was immediately successful, and Young, known for his devilish sense of humor as well as his immense musical talents, rose to great but brief regional prominence. A vaudeville entertainer from New Haven, Connecticut, Cecil Young arrived in Seattle on a Palomar Theater date.

The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop. For most of its history the Quartet consisted of John Lewis (piano), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (double bass), and Connie Kay (drums). The group grew out of the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie's big band from 1946 to 1948, which consisted of Lewis and Jackson along with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Kenny Clarke.

In the 1970s in jazz, jazz become increasingly influenced by Latin jazz, combining rhythms from African and Latin American countries, often played on instruments such as conga, timbale, güiro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments (piano, double bass, et.

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The Lisa Young Quartet is a jazz-world music quartet from Melbourne, Australia, led by a vocal artist and composer Lisa Young. Lisa Young is a prominent musician on the Melbourne jazz scene, known for the use of wordless vocals and the use of voice as an instrument with Konnakol influences (the South Indian vocal percussion technique). The quartet is composed of Young, Stephen Magnusson (guitar), Ben Robertson (double bass) and Dave Beck (drums)

So Cool Jazz was inspired by Lester Young, but it was created by Miles Davis. Davis, like all other Jazz musicians at the time, started playing Bebop but he was always less intense, less aggressive, less quick, less loud, less high up, and less busy than other Bebop players (like Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie). He always played a bit more relaxed, used the middle register of his trumpet, and was more inclined to silence. So he wasn’t really suited to playing Bebop. So in 1949 and 1950 he got a group of musicians together and created the Birth of the Cool recordings.