Summary
Another problem of cool jazz is the negative connotation of being unemotional and cold, reinforced by the racial and stylistic dichotomy of white musicians representing "cool" jazz and black musicians "hot" jazz. [...] he is tackling the assumption implied in the album title: did Davis's nonet give birth to the new "cool" style?
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The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates
OUTSIDE THE "WESTERN ART MUSIC" CANON The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates. By Frank Tirro. (CMS Sourcebooks in American Music, no. 5.) Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2009. [xxv, 196 p. ISBN 9781576471289. $45.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, discography, appendices, index, compact disc.
The Birth of the Cool is the title of the 1957 album containing eleven recordings by Miles Davis's nonet from three Capitol sessions in 1949 and 1950. The nonet consisted of an unusual instrumentation, including a French horn and a tuba, which, according t...See the full content of this document
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