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Added: 2008-06-26
Cool Jazz begins in a series of recordings made by Miles Davis, et al. Many people attach more importance to the et al than to Davis. Nevertheless, a nucleus of people from the Claude Thornhill band including Lee Konitz, Bill Barber, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Shulman and Gil Evans apparently arrived at the ideas which led to Cool and then called Davis in as a trumpeter and maybe more importantly, a known name. Songs include Denzil Best's
Move, Mulligan's
Jeru and
Rocker as well as
Israel and
Boplicity. See the Capitol Jazz CD
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool.
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