The critic Ted Gioia (JOY-uh) has written about the "The Birth and Death of" this movement, identifying its roots in the style of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Chico Hamilton and Gerry Mulligan were 
The critic Ted Gioia (JOY-uh) has written about the "The Birth and Death of" this movement, identifying its roots in the style of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Chico Hamilton and Gerry Mulligan were part of a "pianoless quartet" devoted to playing this style; most of their music was released through Pacific Jazz Records. An album named for this style includes the John Carisi penned track "Israel" as well as a song inspired by the statue Venus de Milo. Musicians from (*) California popularized the "West Coast" subgenre of this style of jazz, which titles a Miles Davis album about its supposed "Birth." Relaxed tempos and an "intellectual" approach characterize, for 10 points, what style of jazz so-named since it was a reaction to the frenetic style of bebop?
The critic Ted Gioia (JOY-uh) has written about the "The Birth and Death of" this movement, identifying its roots in the style of the cornetist Bix Beiderbecke.