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The Complete Birth Of The Cool
The Complete Birth Of The Cool
Release Date:
May 19, 1998
Recording Period:
Sep 1948 - Mar 1950
Label:
CM BLUE NOTE (A92)
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1. Move
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2. Jeru
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3. Moon Dreams
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4. Venus De Milo
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5. Budo
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6. Deception
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7. Godchild
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8. Boplicity
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9. Rocker
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10. Israel
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11. Rouge
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12. Darn That Dream
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13. Birth of The Cool Theme – Live at The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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14. Symphony Sid Annouces The Band – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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15. Move – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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16. Why Do I Love You – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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17. Godchild – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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18. Symphony Sid Introduction – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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19. S’il Vous Plait – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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20. Moon Dreams – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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21. Budo (Hallucinations) – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 4, 1948
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22. Darn That Dream – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 18, 1948
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23. Move – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 18, 1948
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24. Moon Dreams – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 18, 1948
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25. Budo (Hallucinations) – Live At The Royal Rooster, New York, September 18, 1948
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In 1949, in a nondescript basement room behind a Chinese laundry in midtown Manhattan, a group of like-minded jazz modernists formed a groundbreaking collective. Among them were jazz headliners soon-to-be: Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, John Lewis, the arranger Gil Evans and significantly, the 22-year-old trumpeter Miles Davis, who became the leader of the project. The music this historic nine-piece group created together that year and in 1950 — in the studio and onstage — came and went with little notice at first. Seven years later, when the music was collected on a full LP for the first time, the world came to understand its impact: a true watershed moment in postwar music, dubbed with the name that remains one of the best known in modern jazz: Birth of the Cool.

The Complete Birth of the Cool chronicles the brief yet monumental importance of the Miles Davis Nonet, presenting together all the music created by this collective — the 12 sides they recorded in 1949/‘50, as well as the ensemble’s only extant live recordings, recorded at the Royal Roost.

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