Birth of the Cool

Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077779286225
EAN: 0077779286225
ASIN: B000005HF9

Release Date: 1989-09-20

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best jazz ever
Miles plays it Cool..., '64 & before...a good place to start
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Tracks:

Move
Jeru
Moon Dreams
Venus De Milo
Budo
Deception
God Child
Boplicity
Rocker
Israel
Rouge
Darn That Dream

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Customer Reviews:

A must have for your collection.......2007-03-26

These recordings are a must have for an understanding of the shear evolution of jazz, but not the best.

Good not Great.......2007-03-13

There a few good songs on the ablum but it isn't great

labor of love.......2007-02-15

Having only recently jumped on the Jazz scene as a 24 year veteran of the drum, i don't know as if i am qualified to write a review for those into this boat, but i must say that as a neophyte, i am and will be for a long time to come, a Davis fan. And this, the birth of the cool is an album that i will treasure as one of my own. very smooth sounds, breathy on the horns and completely listenable, a must have for any burgeoning collection.

A Real Cool Time.......2006-07-29

The auspicious title really does say it all for this collection of trumpeter Miles Davis' 1949 nonet dates. In these dozen performances a whole new school of jazz was created, as former beboppers Davis and drummer Max Roach joined forces with progressive composers, arrangers and players such as Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan and John Lewis to explore the subtler and moodier side of the genre from a vituoso's standpoint. Mellow as the results are for the most part, there's a world of complexity and detail to be found here which no self-respecting jazzhead (nor anyone else who really cares about music) can afford to miss.
As would often be the case throughout his long and varied career, Davis is featured on these sessions primarily as a player and crafter of atmosphere. Despite having brought the sizeable combo (which also featured such famed blowers as Lee Konitz on alto saxophone and Kai Winding on trombone) together and serving as its nominal head, the Maestro takes only one half-credit as a composer on these dates, with the bulk of the charts coming from Mulligan, Lewis and of course Evans, whose big band orchestrations had provided Miles with his initial inspiration. These other gentlemen would also incorporate the innovations realized on the BIRTH OF THE COOL sessions far more extensively into their respective subsequest careers than would the trumpeter himself, thus marking this classic set of recordings as not only a once-in-a-lifetime supergroup summit, but a truly pivotal moment in jazz history.

Get It For "Boplicity" Alone.......2006-04-07

The Whole cd Is Great,But Boplicity Is By Far The best thing on the disc-the most innovative,swinging,cool,hip mid tempo blocked harmony track of it's era.Years ahead of it's time,i couldn't beleive it dates back to 1949.What a landmark- still hip as hell 56 years on,and written only 8 or so years after the much squarer(But still great in it's way)In The Mood.

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