Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (Vinyl LP)

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool (Vinyl LP)Culled from three separate nonet sessions that took place from early 1949 through March of 1950, Birth Of The Cool is the literal blue print for the sound known as cool jazz thus its title. Featuring the fluidity of bop, innovative big band arrangements and a relaxed overall elegance, the Gil Evans arranged sessions find Miles Davis supported by pivotal performances from such jazz luminaries as Kai Winding, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz and Max Roach

Armed with a four-track portastudio

Three years on and the band have taken for international waters

Parallel Universe

not strictly albums

The lyric of "Everything Scatter" portrays Nigeria’s conflicted society through metaphor and microcosm: an argument supposedly taking place among the passengers on a bus going past Kalakuta Republic

Too unlocks a new set of rarities and unheard fragments from the past for the producer’s legion of fans

Side D features 5 previously unreleased tracks

Guild of the Asbestos Weaver seeks to simply spark the imagination

The group has won three Grammy Awards

and countless nights spent driving fans wild in sold out arenas across the globe

The fourth in the Switched On series that compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop

GYBE continued to paint on an impossibly large canvas