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Now when I was a young idiot I noticed how some people wanted to look "cool" (whether they were or not). Read the cool magazines, buy whatever shoes, walk around like a zombie, dance like an epileptic.
Although what is considered "cool" changes all the time, the zombie element remains fairly consistent. Here's an example from 1964:
Well they're all trying to look "cool" and perhaps a purist might argue that a bossa nova is not cool jazz in the strictest sense but my point here is about the camel's nose. Satan knows all about that camel at midnight by the oasis seeking only to have its nose in the cozy tent to breathe some warm air. Satan likes to get his nose in warm places too and, like the camel, his nose leads to head and heads are followed by necks until before you know it the whole camel has gotten into the tent and the bedouin is outside with his trollop freezing to death.
Nothing has changed. Satan—having introduced "cool" as a theme—wasted no time getting more of himself into modern youth. Moving across to Japan and jumping forward in time to 2012 we find the music has degenerated completely but the yearning to seem "cool" remains front and centre. In this case trying to look like wafting ectoplasm:
It is a straight line from Stan Getz to Osaka Noise. And just as there was cross-contamination during the 50's and 60's from cool jazz to the bossa nova (and back again) so the Japanese in these last days compare notes between Osaka and Kyoto with a single objective: to mock Jesus. Satan is the prime mover here, first it was just his nose. Cool jazz. The bossa nova. Now it's the whole camel.
Although what is considered "cool" changes all the time, the zombie element remains fairly consistent. Here's an example from 1964:
Well they're all trying to look "cool" and perhaps a purist might argue that a bossa nova is not cool jazz in the strictest sense but my point here is about the camel's nose. Satan knows all about that camel at midnight by the oasis seeking only to have its nose in the cozy tent to breathe some warm air. Satan likes to get his nose in warm places too and, like the camel, his nose leads to head and heads are followed by necks until before you know it the whole camel has gotten into the tent and the bedouin is outside with his trollop freezing to death.
Nothing has changed. Satan—having introduced "cool" as a theme—wasted no time getting more of himself into modern youth. Moving across to Japan and jumping forward in time to 2012 we find the music has degenerated completely but the yearning to seem "cool" remains front and centre. In this case trying to look like wafting ectoplasm:
It is a straight line from Stan Getz to Osaka Noise. And just as there was cross-contamination during the 50's and 60's from cool jazz to the bossa nova (and back again) so the Japanese in these last days compare notes between Osaka and Kyoto with a single objective: to mock Jesus. Satan is the prime mover here, first it was just his nose. Cool jazz. The bossa nova. Now it's the whole camel.
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