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Although the recordings were not immediately successful, they heralded the "cool jazz" that would prove popular with musicians dissatisfied with the formulaic nature of bebop and its emphasis on virtuosity.

Steeped in American roots music, 1950s cool jazz and the musical openness of Don Cherry, it never feels settled but almost always seems centered on a search for shared comfort.

Watts — who died in London on Tuesday at 80 — was a misfit among misfits, a gentleman lost at sea with hungry pirates, a cool jazz mind in the world’s most insatiable rock-and-roll troupe.

Sly but energetic, Tabackin’s sax playing has always called back to the swing era, reaching through cool jazz and bebop on the way there.

Her “cool jazz” friends from the Brit School showed her some chords.