The quality of the recordings on most of the cuts is quite good when you consider some of them date back to 1949!
Unfortunately, no liner notes accompany this release and I had to refer to Discogs for a comprehensive list of personnel and additional notes. Several great artists on this release; well worth the $4.99 cover charge.
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Track Listings
| 1 | Move |
| 2 | Jeru |
| 3 | Moon Dreams |
| 4 | Venus de Milo |
| 5 | Budo |
| 6 | Deception |
| 7 | Godchild |
| 8 | Boplicity |
| 9 | Rocker |
| 10 | Israel |
| 11 | Rouge |
| 12 | Darn That Dream |
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The classic! Tracks: "Move," "Jeru," "Moon Dreams" "Venus de Milo," "Budo," "Deception," "Godchild," "Boplicity," "Rocker," "Israel," "Rouge" and "Darn That Dream."
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.87 x 5.79 x 0.39 inches; 3.53 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Capitol Records
- Item model number : 3 3 00530117
- Original Release Date : 2001
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Date First Available : December 7, 2006
- Label : Capitol Records
- ASIN : B00005614M
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #35,365 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #106 in Cool Jazz (CDs & Vinyl)
- #382 in Bebop (CDs & Vinyl)
- #22,368 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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You Deserve This Music
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021
I began working from home when the pandemic went into overdrive last year. It took me a few weeks to recognize the need to refresh my music library if I wanted to listen to something to help me through the workday (from my basement). Adding Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Dave Brubeck has helped me a lot but a strong desire to diversify my jazz collection is what got me to this disc. I'm grateful that I made this purchase.Released in 1957, all eleven tracks on "Birth of the Cool" feature Miles Davis and his masterful sound, backed up by no less than 16 individual musicians. The arrangements sound fresh, visionary, and never dated. This is essential to any music collection and needs to be regarded along with "Kind of Blue" and "Saxophone Colossus."When the last tack ends, you will want more.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2021
Released in 1957, all eleven tracks on "Birth of the Cool" feature Miles Davis and his masterful sound, backed up by no less than 16 individual musicians. The arrangements sound fresh, visionary, and never dated. This is essential to any music collection and needs to be regarded along with "Kind of Blue" and "Saxophone Colossus."
When the last tack ends, you will want more.
I began working from home when the pandemic went into overdrive last year. It took me a few weeks to recognize the need to refresh my music library if I wanted to listen to something to help me through the workday (from my basement). Adding Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Dave Brubeck has helped me a lot but a strong desire to diversify my jazz collection is what got me to this disc. I'm grateful that I made this purchase.
Released in 1957, all eleven tracks on "Birth of the Cool" feature Miles Davis and his masterful sound, backed up by no less than 16 individual musicians. The arrangements sound fresh, visionary, and never dated. This is essential to any music collection and needs to be regarded along with "Kind of Blue" and "Saxophone Colossus."
When the last tack ends, you will want more.
Released in 1957, all eleven tracks on "Birth of the Cool" feature Miles Davis and his masterful sound, backed up by no less than 16 individual musicians. The arrangements sound fresh, visionary, and never dated. This is essential to any music collection and needs to be regarded along with "Kind of Blue" and "Saxophone Colossus."
When the last tack ends, you will want more.
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You Deserve This Music
By Peter Watt on May 21, 2021
I began working from home when the pandemic went into overdrive last year. It took me a few weeks to recognize the need to refresh my music library if I wanted to listen to something to help me through the workday (from my basement). Adding Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Dave Brubeck has helped me a lot but a strong desire to diversify my jazz collection is what got me to this disc. I'm grateful that I made this purchase.By Peter Watt on May 21, 2021
Released in 1957, all eleven tracks on "Birth of the Cool" feature Miles Davis and his masterful sound, backed up by no less than 16 individual musicians. The arrangements sound fresh, visionary, and never dated. This is essential to any music collection and needs to be regarded along with "Kind of Blue" and "Saxophone Colossus."
When the last tack ends, you will want more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good place to start if you're just getting into jazz in general and Miles Davis in particular.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2016
Picked this up after seeing the Don Cheadle directed/starrer 'Miles Ahead' which is a fictionalized telling of a creatively fallow period in Davis's life. When I was in college I was a fan of the Digable Planets and their most popular single 'Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)' (1992) draws inspiration from this album-- and not just the title.
I've always found music reviews to be a bit problematic-- not every style is going to please everyone and what I consider seminal might just be 'meh' to someone else. It's a crap shoot. I've always found Davis's playing to be very 'athletic' and energizing to me as a listener, which belies the conventional wisdom of jazz as a sort of lackadaisical mess. I don't know why this album resonates with me so much, but Wikipedia says the pieces are inspired by classical techniques and forms and I like classical so maybe that's it?
'Boplicity', 'Jeru', and 'Venus de Milo' are standouts for me, and I recognized a few licks because the same or similar were probably sampled in early 90s hip hop/rap tracks. I found the last track, 'Darn that Dream' featuring vocals by Kenny Hagood, a bit jarring because of the vocals but really it's a good reminder of Davis' skill as a collaborator. He was able to hold his own on, or relinquish control of, any style of track.
I've always found music reviews to be a bit problematic-- not every style is going to please everyone and what I consider seminal might just be 'meh' to someone else. It's a crap shoot. I've always found Davis's playing to be very 'athletic' and energizing to me as a listener, which belies the conventional wisdom of jazz as a sort of lackadaisical mess. I don't know why this album resonates with me so much, but Wikipedia says the pieces are inspired by classical techniques and forms and I like classical so maybe that's it?
'Boplicity', 'Jeru', and 'Venus de Milo' are standouts for me, and I recognized a few licks because the same or similar were probably sampled in early 90s hip hop/rap tracks. I found the last track, 'Darn that Dream' featuring vocals by Kenny Hagood, a bit jarring because of the vocals but really it's a good reminder of Davis' skill as a collaborator. He was able to hold his own on, or relinquish control of, any style of track.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2022
played some nice horn. I like this CD kind of 50-50.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2020
One of the reasons I bought this CD was to hear the last song on the album " Darn That Dream " The vocals were great, and you DUMMIES issued the 1956 version. Save that version for purists. I want " Darn That Dream "
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2018
Birth of the Cool (1957) was actually recorded from 1949-50 by a very young Miles Davis and his band, featuring ‘cool’ numbers that are smooth, subtle, relaxing, yet still mildly grooving in tempo. I’ve held off on getting this album for quite some time, but I’m glad that my jazz collection now features some post-WWII cool jazz. I highly recommend the sounds of this Miles Davis album for a great wind down to a stressful day. Warning: The last track, ‘Darn that Dream’ is addictive!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 4, 2018
Gerry Mulligan's compositions and arrangements are beautiful. And they make up the majority of the disk. But I guess Miles was the BIG NAME at the time. As fresh now as it was then which in some ways is a sad comment on the (lack of) popularity of jazz today. Many reasons - lack of musical education and the cost of getting hold of musical scores to study are two. The availablilty of cheap, good student instruments is another. Why pay a load of money when you can strum 5 or 6 chords and sound something like a tune you heard on the radio? And if you try a bit harder you get paid for it :-))
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Hugely Influential
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 23, 2013
This year 2000 reissue of the original 1957 Miles Davis (nonet) album, which itself was a 'collection' of earlier sessions recorded over three separate dates in the years 1949 and 1950, whilst making for highly impressive listening in its own right, is now rightly regarded as one of the most influential jazz recordings of its era. Not only did Birth Of The Cool (probably too self-aggrandising, not to say meaningless, a title to be honest, despite the album's later significance) serve to lay the groundwork for some of the key phases of Davis' own musical development (most notably his collaboration with Gil Evans, who also assumes some of the composing and arranging duties here) but also a good deal of small band jazz that followed, as well as some of the more expansive developments of the likes of Charles Mingus - all the more remarkable to think that band leader Davis was only 23 at the time!
Here the three incarnations of Davis' nonet, of which his horn and Gerry Mulligan's baritone sax are ever present (and, arguably, most influential), along with Lee Konitz's alto sax and John Barber's tuba, serve to create an intoxicating band sound, in which improvisation and pre-arrangement strike a near perfect balance, and the use of polyphonic 'harmony playing', across the instruments, was revolutionary for the time (and helped achieve Davis' ambition that the instruments should sound like 'human voices singing').
Of the 12 tunes included (all running to around 3 minutes), Mulligan takes the most prominent role in terms of arrangement (Godchild, Deception, Jeru, Venus De Milo, Rocker and Darn That Dream), whilst he (Jeru, Venus De Milo and Rocker) and Miles (Budo and Deception) also penned the most numbers. Although, for me, there is virtually not a weak moment here (although Darn That Dream, with Kenny Hagood's vocal does feel slightly out of place), if I had to pick favourites I would opt for the vibrant opener Denzil Best's Move (featuring a great solo from Konitz), Evans' beautiful arrangement of Moon Dreams (like something straight off Miles Ahead), the exquisite tone from Davis' horn on his own composition Deception, the seamless ensemble playing on Mulligan's Rocker (and the man's baritone 'break') and the intoxicating swing of John Lewis' Rouge (featuring a nice piano solo by the man himself).
Here the three incarnations of Davis' nonet, of which his horn and Gerry Mulligan's baritone sax are ever present (and, arguably, most influential), along with Lee Konitz's alto sax and John Barber's tuba, serve to create an intoxicating band sound, in which improvisation and pre-arrangement strike a near perfect balance, and the use of polyphonic 'harmony playing', across the instruments, was revolutionary for the time (and helped achieve Davis' ambition that the instruments should sound like 'human voices singing').
Of the 12 tunes included (all running to around 3 minutes), Mulligan takes the most prominent role in terms of arrangement (Godchild, Deception, Jeru, Venus De Milo, Rocker and Darn That Dream), whilst he (Jeru, Venus De Milo and Rocker) and Miles (Budo and Deception) also penned the most numbers. Although, for me, there is virtually not a weak moment here (although Darn That Dream, with Kenny Hagood's vocal does feel slightly out of place), if I had to pick favourites I would opt for the vibrant opener Denzil Best's Move (featuring a great solo from Konitz), Evans' beautiful arrangement of Moon Dreams (like something straight off Miles Ahead), the exquisite tone from Davis' horn on his own composition Deception, the seamless ensemble playing on Mulligan's Rocker (and the man's baritone 'break') and the intoxicating swing of John Lewis' Rouge (featuring a nice piano solo by the man himself).
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James Shepherdson
5.0 out of 5 stars
My first Miles Davis purchase
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 7, 2022
After watching a documentary on Miles Davis I really loved his soulful trumpet jazz. This album is my first foray into jazz and i love it, it exudes cool, and now I'm hooked!
Just ordered another three CDs of his, and a John Coltrane album
Just ordered another three CDs of his, and a John Coltrane album
L.A.Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Miles is the best!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 5, 2022
That trumpet is just one of a kind!
And this album is one of those that sound better on a truntable than on a digital stream. The recording and pressing are phenominal.
And this album is one of those that sound better on a truntable than on a digital stream. The recording and pressing are phenominal.
D J F
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Early Days
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 8, 2013
Whilst there is a more comprehensive collection in 'The Complete Birth of the Cool' available this cost so little it was a real steal. Featuring both sides of six 78rpm singles these were Miles' first ventures leading a band in his own right. Whilst the sound can fairly be called historic it is very listenable and well digitised. It's great to hear the genius that was Miles Davis before he released a series of simply classic albums throughout the 1950's. A worthwhile purchase but maybe not the ideal starting point if you are just getting into 'The Man with the Horn'
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