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Birth of the Cool is the first important leader date from Miles Davis, one of jazz's most seminal figures and farsighted practitioners. Having made his reputation in large measure from playing with bop giant Charlie Parker, Davis confounded expectations when he embraced the "cool" arranging style of Gil Evans, an arranger for Claude Thornhill's band. Evans, who was employing unique voicings by adding French horns and tuba to Thornhill's instrumentations, also emphasized a diminished use of vibrato in both reeds and brass, producing a drier, "cool" sound. Two of Evans's arrangements, "Boplicity" and
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Release date: 19 May 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724349455023 UPC: 724349455023
Release date: 19 May 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724349455023 UPC: 724349455023
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