In many ways, the development of the cool jazz style was a musical response to style of bebop, which in turn, was a response to swing. what are some of the important characteristics of cool jazz? how was it different than the preceding style, bebop? who were some of the important musicians to pioneer the style of cool jazz? did cool jazz have much in common with bebop or is cool jazz such a radical change that it shares little in common with bebop? do you think that cool jazz shares much in common with jazz from the swing era? if so, what? we know that in the style of bebop, the arrangers were not as important as they were in the swing era. did the importance of the arranger change with the style of cool jazz? what about the typical instrumentation? in bebop, a quintet of piano, bass, drums, saxophone and trumpet (i. e., the groups of dizzy gillespie and charlie parker) were common place. in the swing era, bands tended to be much larger. what were some of the instrumentation characteristics of a typical cool jazz ensemble? was there a typical cool jazz ensemble?