Whitaker Jazz Speaks | 1940s-1950s – The Birth of Cool & Hard Bop | Miles Davis & the Birth of Cool: Reinventing Jazz in Post-War America
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Date
Feb 18, 2026 7:30PM
Name
Whitaker Jazz Speaks | 1940s-1950s – The Birth of Cool & Hard Bop | Miles Davis & the Birth of Cool: Reinventing Jazz in Post-War America
Description
This talk will explore Davis’s pivotal role in bebop (playing with Charlie Parker), the development of cool jazz, his time at Juilliard, and how his collaborations shaped modern jazz.