In 1946, after the [[Second World War]], there was an influx of Californian (predominantly white) jazz musicians to New York. Once there, these musicians mixed with the mostly African-American [[Bebop|bop]] musicians, but being heavily influenced by swing musicians such as Lester Young (Prez) and Coleman Hawkins (Bean), incorporated a mellower tone. The product, ''cool jazz'', was a lighter, more romantic style of jazz than Be-Bop; cool jazz took a relaxed, simple approach to rhythm while preserving the [[harmony|harmonic]] ideas of bop. The [[Claude Thornhill]] Orchestra with the arranger [[Gil Evans]] recorded cool jazz as early as the late 1940s; Thornhill's most popular song, "Snowfall", is still played today. Other cool musicians of the 1940's included [[Lennie Tristano]] and his colleagues [[Billy Bauer]] and [[Warne Marsh]]. The style grew more prevalent in the 1950's, attracting the attention of musicians like [[Miles Davis]], whose recordings ''[[Birth of the Cool]]'' (1957) and ''[[Kind of Blue]]'' (1959) became among the most popular jazz albums ever produced.

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