Talk:West Coast jazz

A huge part of jazz

This or [cool jazz] definitely need an article. They are huge parts of jazz history to not have one.

The Sound

I wanted to add a description of what West coast Jazz sounds like and how it differs from other styles within Jazz. I also think its worth noting that the West coast sound was influenced by players on the east coast as well.

University of California book

I was trying to make a change to the article because though I think there was definitely a lot of creation coming out of Los Angeles, I think there was also quite a bit coming out of San Francisco. Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, etc. come to mind. I have some links from a University of California book on West Coast Jazz, that has two entire chapters about San Francisco.

http://books.google.com/books/ucpress?id=O-b1Qmta2wsC&pg=PA60&vq=San+Francisco&sig=Sd7F_SBDfYqjZjajvS9rSikkFMI#PPA60,M1

What you call "a University of California book" (for what it's worth, it was originally published by the Oxford University Press, but that doesn't matter now) is the same book by Ted Gioia I added to the References a while back. But you make a good point. Though there was far more jazz activity of the kind associated with "West Coast jazz" in Los Angeles, we can't leave San Francisco out of the picture entirely. Alan W 23:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)