Cool This word is used as a term to say so much. It has been with us for decades. It's interesting how its use in music has developed. Cool Jazz for an example, arose after World War II and responds to bebop but with a mellow groove. It features relaxed tempos and a lighter beat. Then too, there's West Coast Jazz, equally cool...chill music. From the 80's onward, cool has been incorporated into the names of Hip Hop and Rap artists, such as LL Cool J (see sexy picture above), which sounds a heck of a lot cooler than his given name, James Todd Smith. His wife says LL Cool J stands for Ladies Love Cool James. The concept of 'cool' is magnified when paired with something we use to beat the heat or just for a beat down in general... as in the artist and actor pictured above, O'Shea Jackson, Sr, better known as Ice Cube and then there's: Tracey Lauren Marrow. Oh but you've probably only heard him referred to as: ...
The virtual studio of author and artist Stephanie Rose Bird brings together artistic process and reflection with the literary arts, in a manner that is designed to be instructive and inspirational.