• Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by the American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis, released in February 1957 by Capitol Records. It compiles...
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  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool is a 2019 American documentary film about Miles Davis, directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. The film was made for the PBS American...
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    Miles Davis recordings that constitute Birth of the Cool; the complete works of the Modern Jazz Quartet; the output of Gerry Mulligan, especially his work...
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    The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere [ˈnaʃʃita di ˈvɛːnere]) is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the...
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    Miles Davis (category Cool jazz trumpeters)
    after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, while...
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  • Look up cool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coolness, or being cool, is the aesthetic quality of something (such as attitude, behavior, appearance...
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    labeled cool jazz and eventually appeared on the album Birth of the Cool in 1957 by Capitol Records, marked an important influence on the future of jazz...
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    primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also...
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    called the "Tuba Band"—with which Davis was pursuing a project that gave birth to the cool jazz movement later to be called Birth of the Cool. Kay befriended...
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  • Dream (Birth of the New Cool) is an album by saxophonist Sonny Criss recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label. AllMusic awarded the album 4...
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    David Bailey (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    1992 The Lady is a Tramp, 1995 Rock & Roll Heroes, 1997 Archive One, 1999 (also titled The Birth of the Cool for USA) Chasing Rainbows, 2001 Art of Violence...
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  • the school of cool jazz with the Birth of the Cool recording sessions in 1949 and 1950, Davis almost immediately turned away from that sound in the early...
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  • Evans for the 1957 album Birth of the Cool, but credited to "Cleo Henry", which was the maiden name of Davis' mother. It was composed in the key of F major...
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    invention". The Dominion Post. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015. Dixon, Greg (22 July 2008). "The birth of the cool". The New...
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  • The title is a play on Birth of the Cool, a 1957 compilation album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. The reception was generally positive for "Birth of the...
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    Barkley L. Hendricks (category Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni)
    Birth of the Cool" Hendricks Birth of the Cool interview Hendricks interview on WUNC / NPR Pop Art Meets Photorealism (NY Times) Hendricks Birth of the...
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    Kenny Hagood (category 1926 births)
    1948/1949 (Fresh Sound; earlier released as LP: Pre-Birth Of The Cool (Cicala Jazz Life)) Dizzy Gillespie: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird, 1937–49)...
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  • based on the Birth of the Cool nonet. In 1950 Stan Kenton disbanded his Innovations Orchestra in Los Angeles. Many of the musicians, some of whom had...
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  • Miles Ahead (album) (category Cool jazz albums)
    the Birth of the Cool sessions. Along with their subsequent collaborations Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sketches of Spain (1960), Miles Ahead is one of the...
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    First, "Birth of the cool: The story behind the ice cream sandwich, an icon at 120", Boston Globe, July 30, 2019 Archived July 30, 2019, at the Wayback...
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    stage name Tré Cool, is a German-born American musician, best known as the long-time drummer for the rock band Green Day. He replaced the band's former...
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    Bill Barber (musician) (category 1920 births)
    by many to be the first person to play tuba in modern jazz. He recorded with Miles Davis on the albums Birth of the Cool, Sketches of Spain, and Miles...
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    known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper and actor. He is one of the earliest rappers to achieve commercial...
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  • Frances Taylor Davis (category 1929 births)
    interviewed for the documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool; it was released posthumously in 2019. Taylor had a relationship with George Barrie, CEO of Fabergé...
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  • and Gil Evans had worked together on Davis's landmark 1949 album Birth of the Cool. Evans was a distinguished soloist, but it was his role as arranger...
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  • included the Capitol Jazz Men and issued the Miles Davis's album Birth of the Cool. Capitol released a few classical albums in the 1940s, some of which contained...
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    such as the music of Birth of the Cool or Kind of Blue. In Davis's view, remaining static stylistically was the wrong option. "So What" or Kind of Blue,...
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    Jean Shrimpton (category 1942 births)
    Steidlville.com David Bailey and Martin Harrison. Birth of the Cool: 1957–1969 "David Bailey: Godfather of cool". BBC News. 15 June 2001. Polly (12 June 1967). "Shrimp...
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  • Isham – "Birth of the Cool Whip" 2:53 Dinah Washington – "Trouble in Mind" 2:50 Mark Isham – "Late Night Blues" 4:59 Mark Isham – "Medley of the Very Thought...
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    Lee Konitz (category Cool jazz saxophonists)
    Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool sessions and his work with pianist Lennie Tristano. He was one of relatively few alto saxophonists of this era to retain...
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