Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Yeah yeah yeah I already know what your thinking.

"Why is he doing something so fucking obvious!?!"

Answer: Because its a record everyone needs to listen to at one point in life. A woman stays a girl until she hears this record and a man fails to turn into a man until this record reaches the last few bars of "Darn that Dream".

Im keeping it brief this time. Written and recorded in 1949-1950 and has a bunch of dudes you wish you could play like. If you dont like jazz i recommend this even more.

1. "Move" (Denzil Best, arranged by John Lewis) – 2:32
2. "Jeru" (Gerry Mulligan) – 3:10
3. "Moon Dreams" (Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer, arranged by Gil Evans) – 3:17
4. "Venus de Milo" (Mulligan) – 3:10
5. "Budo" (Miles Davis, Bud Powell, arranged by Lewis) – 2:32
6. "Deception" (Davis, arranged by Mulligan) – 2:45
7. "Godchild" (George Wallington, arranged by Mulligan) – 3:07
8. "Boplicity" (Cleo Henry, i.e. Davis and Gil Evans, arranged by Evans) – 2:59
9. "Rocker" (Mulligan) – 3:03
10. "Israel" (Johnny Carisi) – 2:15
11. "Rouge" (John Lewis) – 3:13
12. "Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen, arranged by Mulligan) – 3:26

Get into it.

<3Justin James Tisdale III