Birth of the Cool

album by Davis

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discussed in biography
- In Miles Davis: Cool jazz and modal jazz
  …later collected in the album Birth of the Cool (1957).
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Evans
- In Gil Evans
  …on Miles Davis’s seminal album Birth of the Cool (recorded 1949–50), their first noted collaboration. Throughout most of the 1950s, Evans worked in radio and television, often composing and arranging for singers such as Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, and Helen Merrill.
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Roach
- In Max Roach
  …later collected in the album Birth of the Cool (1957). In 1954 he became coleader of a quintet with trumpeter Clifford Brown. The group produced a number of influential recordings before a car accident in 1956 killed Brown and another band member. Roach subsequently formed other ensembles, many of which…
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