Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records. It compiles twelve 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. Read Full BioBirth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records. It compiles twelve 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 implies, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of cool jazz. Most of them were originally released in the 10-inch 78-rpm format and are all approximately three minutes long.
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. Read Full BioBirth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records. It compiles twelve 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 implies, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of cool jazz. Most of them were originally released in the 10-inch 78-rpm format and are all approximately three minutes long.
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Grant Koeller
January 21, 1949 – "Jeru", "Move", "Godchild", "Budo" (matrix numbers: 3395, 3396, 3397, 3398)
Miles Davis – trumpet
Kai Winding – trombone
Junior Collins – French horn
Bill Barber – tuba
Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
Al Haig – piano
Joe Shulman – bass
Max Roach – drums
MrLW25
This actually sounds better without the crunching of run-over pedestrians' bones breaking and gunshots and sirens. Thank you GTA IV for bringing me here.
Jaime Chavez
Holy shit is this a thing??
chiefshawn
kind of a funny song to relate too when ur playing grand theft auto.. CRUISIN down the streets smashing into everything, Pumping led into PPl on the streets while this song is all laid back and jazzy.. lol... classic.
didiaaq
i miss JNR in gta v
IntheGraveyard
If peeing your pants is cool - consider me Miles Davis ;)
Carlos Soares
Miles & GTA: a cool couple.
Jan Dąbrowski
Tutu
Langley Bryant
Carlos Soares Miles should've actually appeared in GTA 😂😂😂 he's the kinda guy who'd fit right in lol
sinvidz
Don't hate on GTA, old jazz folks. It introduced us to this great music, and now we can enjoy it too. GTA made more people close to jazz than music teachers at the year it came out. Or even for more :)
Kitty Love
Dorian Vaughn there’s an Amon Tobin song that samples from a Charlie Parker song, it’s called "Stoney Street."