Miles Davis signe avec "Birth of the Cool" une œuvre fondatrice du jazz moderne. Enregistré entre 1949 et 1950, cet album marque la naissance du mouvement “cool jazz”, avec un son plus subtil, aérien et sophistiqué que le bebop de l’époque.

Entouré de musiciens d’exception comme Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz ou encore Gil Evans, Miles Davis explore des arrangements innovants mêlant harmonie raffinée, douceur des cuivres et liberté d’improvisation.

Des titres emblématiques comme “Boplicity”, “Jeru” ou “Moon Dreams” offrent une atmosphère élégante et intemporelle qui influencera durablement toute l’histoire du jazz. Plus qu’un album, Birth of the Cool est une révolution musicale, un pont entre tradition et modernité.

- Miles Davis "Birth Of The Cool" 180 gram mono LP !
- Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tape !
- Plated and pressed at RTI !

The Blue Note Tone Poet Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was' admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley (from Music Matters), a.k.a. the "Tone Poet", on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

Miles Davis' earliest masterpiece Birth Of The Cool gets the royal treatment in celebration of the legendary trumpeter's Centennial. Following his trial-by-fire tenure in the Charlie Parker Quintet in the mid-1940s, Davis emerged with bolstered confidence and a creative hunger to explore new directions. A regular gathering of like-minded musicians at arranger Gil Evans' Manhattan apartment provided the workshop at which the Miles Davis Nonet was born, and in 1949-50 Davis led three seminal sessions for Capitol Records that documented this exciting new music with a cast of collaborators including Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, John Lewis, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, and others. The nonet featured a unique instrumentation with French horn and tuba to create new textures influenced by impressionist classical music that inspired lyrical improvisations by the band's soloists on arrangements of pieces by Davis, Evans, Mulligan, Lewis, Denzil Best, Bud Powell, Johnny Mercer, and more.