i am cool. he meant, i am relaxed in this environment in my own style. all these writers who were jazz fans became obsessed with it. norman mailer. jack. >> you see someone, hi, you look elsewhere for someone else, all insane, everything is coming everywhere in the sound of the jazz. >> it winds up crossing over in the con. we have ""westside story"" in 1957. there is a definition of cool. ♪ just play it cool, boy, real cool. >> which goes all the way back to lester young, whose idea of cool was that you take your emotions out. sylvester young's invention of cool was sort of a rebellion without being overtly protesting. there is a direct line from cool that comes out of jazz, comes out of african-american culture and its creation to barack