![]() More: Openly gay William Haines rose to Hollywood fame in the 1920s but after refusing a 'lavender marriage' he left it allĭesert denizen Phil Harris voiced Baloo the Bear in the flick and “ooh bi doo be doo’ed” along with Prima. More: Photographer Bruno Bernard started it all for Marilyn, earning himself a place in Palm Springs and Hollywood history More: Sixty years after it was first proposed, Palm Springs International Jazz Festival finally a go “I’m the king of the swingers, the jungle V.I.P.” boasted Prima’s orangutan king in Walt Disney’s 1967 movie The Jungle Book, borrowing a term from jazz and making a fun pun. In Las Vegas, Louis Prima was redefining cool with his unique jump sound. Bandleaders and musicians traveled back and forth between the California and Nevada deserts. Long live cool jazz!’ announced the Bridgeport Telegram, while Life magazine profiled Dizzy Gillespie as a ‘trumpeter who is hot, cool and gone.’”īy the 1960s, so many jazz idioms had been thoroughly adopted by the mainstream that the teenagers who were using the slang had no idea from whence it came.ĭesert culture included the super cool Rat Pack singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. their expressions of approval include 'cool'!" That same year, music critics picked up on the use of cool to describe a new, more relaxed style of jazz. Mainstream publications like The New Yorker magazine reported in 1948, "The bebop people have a language of their own. In jazz circles, cool first came to be associated with sax player Lester Young in the early 1940s. ![]() And the definition of “cool” was a musician who could swing.Īccording to writer Ben Zimmer “Cool is an old word, of course, and leading up to the 20th century it had developed an array of meanings from ‘calm and dispassionate’ to ‘audaciously impudent.’ But it took the jazzmen of the 1940s to transform it into the universal sign of approval.” Layering new meaning onto words that were only understood by the most important and attractive people, the cool crowd, was invented by jazz musicians in the early part of the 20th century. ![]() While it’s somewhat ironic to say “it’s cool” in the desert due to generally prevailing temperatures, the notion that the most admired, desirable people and things, those that are deemed “cool,” are part of the desert scene has been true for decades and the common refrain, “that’s cool!” originates, as do many everyday phrases in the language of jazz. ![]()
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