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Posted by Patrick Crowther on 10 June 2010 - 8:15pm.
There has always been a lot of talk about cool rock n' roll bands. I'm sorry but most of them are nothing of the sort. Jazz musicians are cool. Positively chilled, in fact.
For more proof, see the comments...
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More examples of glacial cool...
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Django Reinhardt
Thelonious Monk
Ray Brown
Buddy Rich
Dexter Gordon?
Cool in extreme circumstances
Roland Kirk
but on the verge of 'trying too hard'
which, for any jazzer is almost the definition of uncool.
Izzard's circle of cool applies here
One sax, cool. Two saxes, looking like a twat.
I'm just a cool man baybay, sellin' the hottest stuff in town
http://www.thejazzbaroness.co.uk/aboutnicaandmonk.asp
The effortlessly cool Scott LaFaro, sadly gone...
... at the age of 25.
Severe haircuts...
always went well with jazz.
Very occasionally you get a
Very occasionally you get a cool rock musician. The Stone Roses were never quite as cool as they thought they were, but the drummer had a certain way about him. I think it's to do with being on the top of your game whilst making it all look effortless. Anyone who does this will stand out from the herd.
A bloke in a floppy hat and a t-shirt...
it's hardly Dexter Gordon is it?!
Reni
If Reni had played sax in New York in the middle of the last century then I agree, he may have dispensed with the hat.
One of the very few rock musicians to have a jazzer's...
sense of style (at times)...
Mezz Mezzrow was often seen dressed like this...
That is why...
I wrote 'at times'. :-)
and Louis Armstrong was never seen without the
multicoloured lighting bolt painted across his face :-)
Miles Davis
Spent the 80's wearing alot of strange stuff...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Doo-Bop_front.jpg
The original Leader of the Gang...
Sorry, couldn't resist.....
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effortless
but I would say that
Sunglasses = trying too hard
Or
Sunglasses = it was sunny.
(Which seems to be the case here.)
:-)
And he's got gloves on...
so either he has a bizarre circulatory system that means his hands are cold even when the sun is shining, or he's being a bit of a prat.
Maybe he suffers from the same non-specific eye complaint
as Bonio.
you're
all just jealous
Who is it? Generic Lou Reed
Who is it? Generic Lou Reed clone guy?
The Monochrome Set
I think this thread is certainly giving powerful evidence of how much cooler people look in B&W ...
[edit: I think TC is an honorable exception -- but my impression of him was formed ion B&W ...]
Stylish.
The late Chet Baker.