Release Date: 26 March 2021
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563183591
Description
Deluxe digipak with 20-page booklet and additional line notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.
"So dubbed because these three sessions are where the sound known as cool jazz essentially formed, Birth of the Cool remains one of the defining, pivotal moments in jazz. This music is so inventive, it remains alluring even after its influence has been thoroughly absorbed into the mainstream" (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
"What remains is one of the great records of modern jazz, music from a wide range of voices, marked by subtle polyphony, paired instrumental voices, a deliberate restraint of a kind not often encountered in jazz, which prizes energy. In fact, a shared masterpiece that has enjoyed a greater than usual mix of reactions. Like all iconic records, it needs to be heard, not talked about...The enchanted chemistry of these late 1940's sessions has lost
none of its unalterable magic." - PENGUINE GUIDE TO JAZZ
Tracklisting
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Elvis Presley
Oscar Peterson
Michel Legrand & Miles Davis
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Quincy Jones
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk And More
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
