Birth Of The Cool

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Cat No: 950627

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Format Details: Yellow Coloured Vinyl /

Release Date: 19 June 2012

Label: Waxtime

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436542017282

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 01 July 2018

Label: Essential Jazz Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436559465519

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 13 November 2020

Label: Groove Replica

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 8436569195024

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 11 May 2018

Label: 20th Century Masterworks

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563183287

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 10 February 2023

Label: Jazz Wax

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436559469586

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 18 November 2022

Label: Waxtime In Color

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436559464338

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 01 January 2017

Label: Jazz Images

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8437016248249

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Release Date: 02 February 2024

Label: Ermitage

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 3770024956634

Genres: Jazz Jazz

Description
The complete seminal album "Birth of the Cool", bringing together the talents of Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis and Gil Evans, among others. As a bonus, all of the tracks recorded by the same group live at the Royal Roost a year before the studio LP was made. Arrangements by John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, Miles Davis & Johnny Carisi.

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Classic Miles Davis LP pressed on 180 gram vinyl, with a bonus CD digipack included containing the complete album ‘Birth Of The Cool’ album plus 11 bonus tracks and updated liner notes.

“The virtuosity led to relaxing, stylish mood music as the end result - the very thing that came to define West Coast or ‘cool’ jazz - but this music is so inventive, it remains alluring even after its influence has been thoroughly absorbed into the mainstream.” - **** AllMusic (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

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Complete album plus bonus track on 180g audiophile pressing and unique cover artwork.

'Birth of the Cool' by Miles Davis was released 1957 on Capital Records and complies eleven tracks recorded by Davis's nonet for the label over the course of three sessions during 1949 and 1950.

Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz. As the title suggests, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of the Cool Jazz genre.

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Limited Edition 180g red coloured vinyl.

'Birth of the Cool' by Miles Davis was released 1957 on Capital Records and complies eleven tracks recorded by Davis's nonet for the label over the course of three sessions during 1949 and 1950.

Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz. As the title suggests, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of the Cool Jazz genre.

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A record that has inspired generations of musicians. In the summer of 1948 Miles Davis, in collaboration with the arranger Gil Evans, whom he had met several years earlier, decided to carry out his project by detaching himself from the principles of bebop to participate in a new form of jazz. Installed in New York, he founded a new group, intermediate between the big band and small bebop groups. Cool jazz was born, but it was not an immediate revolution: the nonet was quickly dissolved, and this new music took several years to establish itself among jazz musicians and the public.
On September 18, 1948, the nonet performed for the first time in public, opening for Count Basie's show at the Royal Roost in New York under the title "Nonet by Miles Davis, arrangement by Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans and John Lewis ". An unusual name which betrays the desire to create music based largely on arrangements.
This release is part of the New Ermitage collection available from January 2024: 18 jazz and soul titles reissued on yellow vinyl with new codes and renewed graphics.
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