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‘Genius’ is a word used somewhat loosely in the music world, but few would dispute assigning that label to the one and only Miles Davis. This Year, Blue Note has re-released Miles’s legendary Birth Of The Cool on vinyl. This is a double-gatefold 2-LP set featuring the entire album sessions plus a live recording taped at the Royal Roost, New York City, during Miles’s two-week residency of September 1948. The collection perfectly captures an epochal shift in Jazz, a move from the revolutionary, frenetic sounds of bebop to a more considered, impressionistic style, focusing on richly-chorded, mostly mid-tempo material and resplendent soloing. Also central to Miles’s ‘cool jazz’ concept was the presence of composer/arranger Gil Evans, who, across three separate New York recording dates during 1949 and 1950, assembled a red-hot nonet of musicians including saxists Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan, trombonists JJ Johnson and Kai Winding, pianists John Lewis and Al Haig and drummers Max Roach and Kenny Clarke. The sessions were subsequently released on several 10” 78s, but not brought together in album form until 1957. This new 2-LP edition is the ultimate vinyl version of the expanded 1998 CD set, cut from the original singles masters with gatefold packaging, rare photos, a new essay by esteemed jazz writer Ashley Kahn (Kind Of Blue, A Love Supreme) and the full, speed-corrected Royal Roost gig featuring Mulligan, Konitz, Haig and Roach.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2-LP edition of a previously-released CD set including both the original, highly-influential album and a rare live set
- The Royal Roost live set makes its debut on vinyl and will be speed/pitch-corrected for the first time
- The studio LP will be cut from the original singles masters – not from the second-generation album master - for the first time
- 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Miles’ first recording sessions for Capitol, the fruits of which feature on this LP
- The packaging will reflect the original cover but will be expanded to a gatefold
- This new package will feature a new essay by esteemed jazz writer Ashley Kahn, plus the LP’s original liner notes, essays from the 1998 release by Phil Schaap and Gerry Mulligan, remembrances by Lee Konitz and rare photos from the recording sessions
- 2019 will see the debut of a new Miles documentary, also titled ‘Birth Of The Cool’
- The Miles Electric Band, featuring Davis’s nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., is considering a ‘Birth Of The Cool’ segment to open their 2019 tour
【曲目】
The Studio Sessions
A1 Move
A2 Jeru
A3 Moon Dreams
A4 Venus De Milo
A5 Budo (Hallucinations)
A6 Deception
B1 Godchild
B2 Boplicity
B3 Rocker
B4 Israel
B5 Rouge
B6 Darn That Dream
