Birth Of The Cool
Subtitle: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
Publisher: Free Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780684813547
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Cultural studies; c 1945 to c 1960; History & Criticism - General; Arts In General (Multi-Subject); Popular Music; Music/Songbooks; History: American; History: World; USA; History and criticism; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; Instruction & Study - Appreciation; History / United States / 20th Century; Music / Popular; Music-History & Criticism - General; Music-Instruction & Study - Appreciation; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); United States; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; Bop (Music); History
First sentence: In 1949 and 1950, a black, twenty-one-year-old trumpet player from East Saint Louis named Miles Davis, and a white, thirty-seven-year-old big-hand arranger from Toronto named Gil Evans, working out of Evans's windowless basement apartment behind a Chinese restaurant on Fifty-fifth Street in Manhattan, created a new kind of music-brass accented and smooth; then suddenly jagged and cut-to-the-chase, with in-a-hurry titles like "Boplicity" and "Move."