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Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $9.97
Audio CD - 09 January, 2001
Blue Note Records
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Number of Media: 1
CD Tracks:
Move
Jeru
Moon Dreams
Venus De Milo
Budo
Deception
Godchild
Boplicity
Rocker
Israel
Rouge
Darn That Dream
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Features:- Original recording reissued
- Original recording remastered
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| Audio CD Description The first important leader date from one of jazz's most seminal figures and farsighted practitioners. Having made his reputation in large measure from playing with bop giant Charlie Parker, Davis confounded expectations when he embraced the "cool" arranging style of Gil Evans, an arranger for Claude Thornhill's band. Evans, who was employing unique voicings by adding French horns and tuba to Thornhill's instrumentations, also emphasized a diminished use of vibrato in both reeds and brass, producing a drier, "cool" sound. Two of Evans's arrangements, "Boplicity" and "Moon Dreams," appear on the album. Also involved are baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, who contributed such outstanding tunes as "Jeru" and "Venus de Milo," and Modern Jazz Quartet pianist John Lewis. The result is a date that has withstood the tests of time, fashion, and Davis's own extraordinary growth as a performer. |
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Get It For "Boplicity" Alone 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.
Get Kind of Blue first Kind of Blue is an infinitely more appealing album for fans of jazz small-groups and improvisation. That's why I'd suggest that if you have to spend your money on ONE Miles album, you go buy "Kind of Blue".
Thank's Lisa! I was ordering some other stuff on Amazon, T.V. on in the background. I heard Lisa Simpson say something about Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool and ordered the CD to get the order over $25 for free shipping or some other impulsive reason. My third-grade students really enjoyed listening to this CD while they worked on their assignments. Very accessible jazz and should be in every collection.
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