I've always wondered what the opening theme was. Before I became vaguely aware of what bebop jazz actually was, I just assumed that's what it was, but now it sounds more like swing mixed with ol' school R'n'B/rock'n'roll energy, and maybe a touch of jazz jazz.
Those conga drums just scream swing though. Or maybe mambo. I don't know. I think once mambo got big in the... 40's or 50's (?) the two kind of became intertwined. Or maybe they always were. I don't know. I never listened to much of that stuff unless I was playing Fallout 3.
Still, even if the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack was a kind of lobotomized jazz (along with quite a few other genres), it was still an excellent simplification. Yoko Kanno seems to only be known in anime nerd circles, but she's pretty amazing at composing music that might otherwise be inaccessible to most people (such as jazz and classical) and giving it an immediacy that complements the shows she scores, while also being enjoyable on their own.
Think I might go make a thread about her or search for a pre-existing one.
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