Birth off cool the

Birth off the cool is an album of Jazz of Miles Davis.

It was recorded during two sessions in 1949 and one in 1950. Arrangements are of Gil Evans, the musicians are Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan (saxophone bariton), Junior Hakes and Sandy Seigelstein (french horn), Bill Barber (tuba), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding and Mike Zwerin (trombone), Al Haig and John Lewis (piano), Joe Shulman, Nelson Boyd, Al McKibbon (low) and max Roach and Kenny Clarke (battery).

The Cool jazz is a reaction to the harmonic madnesses of the Bebop , when the jazzmen such Charlie Parker wanted to reach the “it” describes by Jack Kerouac in her novel headlight on the road . It is a music which interests much the white of the east coast, more harmonious, worked and less décousue, “cold”. Moreover, the formation is composed with half of white musicians. This album is the perfect introduction to this form of jazz.

The disc is a commercial failure but it inspired by the generations of musicians until the Acid jazz which took again the term to baptize Rebirth off the cool . It is at this time that Miles Davis launched her career.

A book (in English) described this movement and its cultural environment, literature and thought happy avantgardist of the American: Birth off cool the: Happy, Bebop, and the American Before Guard .

List titles

  1. "Move" (Denzil Best) (2: 32)

  2. " Jeru" (Gerry Mulligan) (3: 10)
  3. " Moon Dreams" (Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer) (3: 17)
  4. " Come from Milo" (Mulligan) (3: 10)
  5. " Budo" (Miles Davis, Bud Powell) (2: 32)
  6. " Deception" (Davis) (2: 45)
  7. " Godchild" (George Wallington) (3: 07)
  8. " Boplicity" (Cleo Henry, i.e. Davis and Gil Evans) (2: 59)
  9. " Rocker" (Mulligan) (3: 03)
  10. " Israel" (Johnny Carisi) (2: 15)
  11. " Rouge" (John Lewis) (3: 13)
  12. " Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen) (3: 26)

All recorded in New York City:

Arrangements:

  • 1,5,11 - John the Lewis
  • 2,4,6,7,9,12 - Gerry Mulligan
  • 3,8 - Gil Evans
  • 10 - Johnny Carisi

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