Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool (Tone Poet Edition) 180g Vinyl LP

Mono Tone Poet Edition, 180 Gram Vinyl Housed in Deluxe Tip On Gatefold Sleeve Featuring Session Photos.

Miles Davis earliest masterpiece Birth Of The Cool gets the royal treatment in celebration of the legendary trumpeters Centennial. Following his trial-by-fire tenure in the Charlie Parker Quintet in the mid-1940s, Davis emerged with bolstered confidence and a creative hunger to explore new directions.

A regular gathering of like-minded musicians at arranger Gil Evans Manhattan apartment provided the workshop at which the Miles Davis Nonet was born, and in 194950 Davis led three seminal sessions for Capitol Records that documented this exciting new music with a cast of collaborators including Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, John Lewis, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, and others.

The nonet featured a unique instrumentation with French horn and tuba to create new textures influenced by impressionist class