1950-1960: cool jazz, West Coast jazz, and hard bop

Characterized by an opposition between the spontaneous creation of hard bop in Afro-American musical communities, which emerged directly from classical jazz, on the one hand, and the appearance of West Coast jazz at the hands of mostly white musicians on the other, the 1950s also witnessed the birth of the Miles Davis's “cool jazz”. In this compilation of legendary concerts, you will rediscover the greatest minds of this exceptional generation, featuring Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, and many other all-time favorites…