The Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis, 1957, :32
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
This album, like yesterday's, turns out to be a compilation album of singles recorded in a few days seven years earlier by Davis and a nonet, then released later under a variety of titles. The "cool" in the title is meant to show that these recording were among the first to demonstrate cool jazz, a new, more meticulous and subdued, sound in jazz, as opposed to bebop. Personally, I prefer a more exuberant, sweaty Miles, but this is nice too. Favorite tracks: "Move," "Godchild."
