Name: Birth Of The Cool
Brand: Miles Davis

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Gatefold Deluxe 180g

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Limited edition

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Black

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Extended format: No

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Release date

2022-07-22

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DOL801HG

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889397218010

Black LP

Blue

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2022-05-06

DOL801HB

889397006389

Blue LP

Artist

Miles Davis

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Doxy

Genre EU

Jazz

Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history. Miles Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois, USA and passed away on September 28, 1991 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65. He is best known for his seminal modern jazz album "Kind of Blue" (1959), which remains the highest selling jazz album of all time with six million copies sold.Miles Davis studied at an academic school for musicians in NYC where he met Charlie Parker and they started playing together from 1945. In 1948, Miles Davis formed his own ensembles and collaborated with Gil Evans to create The Miles Davis Nonet. Their recordings from 1949 to 1950 resulted in the album "Birth of the Cool" (1957) and laid the foundation for their future collaborations.A pioneer of 'Hard Bop' in the mid-1950s, Miles Davis constantly pushed boundaries throughout his career. In the late 1960s, he ventured into experimenting with electronic instruments and incorporating rock and funk rhythms into his music. Despite health problems leading to a hiatus from playing in the mid-1970s, he made a comeback with an 'electronical' sound in 1980.

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So dubbed because these three sessions -- two from early 1949, one from March 1950 -- are where the sound known as cool jazz essentially formed, Birth of the Cool remains one of the defining, pivotal moments in jazz. This is where the elasticity of bop was married with skillful, big-band arrangements and a relaxed, subdued mood that made it all seem easy, even at its most intricate. After all, there's a reason why this music was called cool; it has a hip, detached elegance, never getting too hot, even as the rhythms skip and jump. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about these sessions -- arranged by <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gil-evans-mn0000551815">Gil Evans</a> and featuring such heavy-hitters as <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kai-winding-mn0000352164">Kai Winding</a>, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gerry-mulligan-mn0000542549">Gerry Mulligan</a>, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lee-konitz-mn0000227776">Lee Konitz</a>, and <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/max-roach-mn0000396372">Max Roach</a> -- is that they sound intimate, as the nonet never pushes too hard, never sounds like the work of nine musicians. Furthermore, the group keeps things short and concise (probably the result of the running time of singles, but the results are the same), which keeps the focus on the tones and tunes. 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 180g heavyweight vinyl, deluxe gatefold edition

Birth Of The Cool

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