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Jazz at 100 Hour 34: Miles and Friends – The “Birth” of the Cool (1947 – 1950)

Oct 20th, 2017 | By Russell Perry

Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Kai winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles Davis, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet

Miles Davis – Lennie Tristano – Gerry Mulligan The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker Quintet since 1945, when he began to woodshed with composer/arrangers John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan […]

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