#Boplicity

[hezigler]

Mark Murphy - Bebop Lives (Boplicity)

[musicwithoutborders]

Miles Davis, Boplicity I Birth Of the Cool, 1957

[thepsynok]

✨1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Series ✨ Album: Birth of the Cool Artist: Miles Davis Genre: #CoolJazz #Jazz ℹ️About The Album : Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis, released in February 1957 by Capitol Records. Winthrop Sargeant, classical music critic at The New Yorker, compared the band's sound to the work of an "impressionist composer with a great sense of aural poetry and a very fastidious feeling for tone color... The music sounds more like that of a new Maurice Ravel than it does like jazz ... it is not really jazz." In the short term the reaction to the band was little to none, but in the long term the recordings' effects have been great and lasting. They have been credited with starting the cool jazz movement as well as creating a new and viable alternative to bebop. 💭Thoughts : The praises for the album are abundant and the significance is widespread. How an album can come to establish a whole new genre is a feat no less. I find myself in the gorges of musical diversity and it demands your attention in an absent minded way. (Confused yet?) Put it on and go cook that meal (you call healthy). 🍸Goes Best With : Today we’re going to make ourselves an age old Jazz Era drink : The Southside, it’s a tangy mix of gin, lime, soda and mint leaves. And don’t forget the sugar syrup (like you were going to..Bah). Enjoy ! Favourite Tracks: 🔥Move, 🔥Moon Dreams, 🔥Venus de Milo, 🔥Boplicity, 🔥Rocker. Featured Tracks: ✨Move #MilesDavis #BirthOfTheCool #Music #MusicReview #KANSASreviews #Musik_Co_ #TasteYourMusic #PsyNok #Psyn0k #FavouriteTracks #1001AlbumsToHearBeforeYouDie https://www.instagram.com/p/CpE7enLPjHP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[utaotomusic]

♫ Boplicity

久しぶりで。

去年自分に発破かけた歌詞てんこ盛り・舌噛みジャズナンバー。 Boplicity | vo. 斎藤あやこ bass. 芝田奨

[sergj7]

Richie Cole Quartet - Boplicity (1983-07-14, Umbria Jazz, Perugia, Italia)

[revkilltaker]

Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool - LP - DOL Records - DOL801MB

Pressing Stats

Pressing #: 2016 Euro Press

Color:  White Vinyl

Qty Pressed: ???

Additional Info: Other Pressings Available

Track Listing

Move

Jeru

Moondreams

Venus De Milo

Budo

Deception

Godchild

Boplicity

Rocker

Israel

Rouge

Darn That Dream

9.5/10

[steamedtangerine]

Boplicity - Charlie Parker

[vintagecratespodcast]

Vintage Crates Episode #452: Boplicity No.14 | Download | Subscribe

1. Clifford Jordan Quartet- Nostalgia/Casbah 2. Joe Newman Quintet - East of the Sun 3. Oscar Pettiford Quartet- The Gentle Art of Love 4. Hans Koller- I'll Close My Eyes 5. Woody Shaw- There Will Never Be Another You 6. Brew Moore- It Could Happen To You 7. Sonny Rollins- Trio Lady Bird

Complete Episode Guide

[biccoba]

Move original arrangement from birth of the cool... with Six Clarinet!

[hezigler]

Miles Davis - Boplicity - (original 1949 recording)

Illustrated with artwork by Miles Davis that has been animated.

This is like the Bebop national anthem. Feel your way through the changes as you listen carefully to the rythm. This tune is like a primer and exercise in Modern Jazz phrasing.

[sgurumiyaji]

本日のおはジャズ「Exploring the Future」Curtis Counce '58

一連のコンテンポラリーでのこのクインテットのアルバムに比べて音質がかなり落ちるのですが、これがこのバンドの最後の録音。Dootone Recordsというマイナーレーベルのせいかな。モノラルだし。これは、ロンドンのBoplicity Recordsのリイシュー。

早逝したカール・パーキンスに代わりエルモ・ホープが加入、レギュラーのハロルド・ランドとフランク・バトラーはそのまま。当時、ランドとコンビを組み「The Land of Jazz」というアルバムに参加した、スウェーデンの白人トランペッター、ロルフ・エリクソンも参加。

ホープ作曲のチャーミングなSo Niceで幕開けするこのアルバム、ジャケットの滑稽さとは裏腹に内容は硬派なハードバップです。出来れば音質の良いコンテンポラリーで録音して欲しかった。契約上で何かトラブルが有ったのだろうけど。

そこを除けば、どの曲も魅力的でアンサンブルもソロも素晴らしく、名盤と言えます。

[musicwine2018]

Beans ☕️ & Beats 🎧

[friendtired]

Discovering Black Artists 01: Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool

Released: February or March 1957

Recorded: January 1949 - March 1950

Genre: Cool Jazz

To begin the journey we start with 1957's Birth of the Cool by jazz juggernaut Miles Davis. Not a proper album, per se, but rather a collection of some the jazz musician's past recordings with his nonet (9-piece band) that contain early examples of the "cool jazz" genre, hence the name. When this came out, Davis was already an established name in jazz (most of these recordings are from the late '40s) and this record was the first time you could listen to all of these tracks on one disc. Containing classic tracks like "Moon Dreams" and "Boplicity," these songs make use of music techniques like polyphony (having two different melodic voices that play simultaneously) that, at the time, were revolutionary for jazz music. While Davis himself didn't write or arrange the music heard on Birth of the Cool, his playing and musical voice shine through with so much soul it elevates the music to a different place. In 1989, the album was re-released on CD with a bonus track, "That Darn Dream," the album's only vocal track. The album was re-released again on CD in 1998, this time as The Complete Birth of the Cool. This version contained remastered versions of all the songs on the original album as well as "That Darn Dream" and added two sets of live recordings from September of 1948, when Davis and his band debuted their new form of jazz music to the public at The Royal Rooster in New York.

I'm putting a little bit below the break with some of my thoughts. I like the idea of adding a few general thoughts I had about each album on these posts, but don't want to clutter the main post with them. If that's not something you're interested in, let me know! I'm open to feedback.

Listen to Birth of the Cool on Spotify

The Doc

Spotify Playlist

I'm not overly familiar with jazz, most of my experience comes from Yoko Kanno's score to the '90's anime Cowboy Bebop, which I absolutely love. That being said, you can really tell Kanno takes major inspiration from Davis and these recordings. I was aware of Davis and knew about him as a musician and an icon of jazz, but had never listened to his music (this will be somewhat of a theme during this journey). I'd always see him and his albums on greatest ____ of all time lists, and always thought about listening, but never actually did so (another theme). It's ridiculous that I never did, because these tracks are excellent and melodically something that I know I would have fallen in love with as a young music listener. It's wild to think that what sounds like just really good jazz music now was the creation point for an entire subsection of the genre when it came out. A great jumping-off point.

Personal Favorite Tracks:

Move

Boplicity

Rocker

[artbookdap]

Today, we're thinking of Wallace Berman, who was born OTD in Staten Island, 1926, and died OTD, in Topanga, CA, 1976.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Images here are from 'Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle,' published by D.A.P. & @theicala and edited with text by Michael Duncan & Kristine McKenna with text by Stephen Fredman.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Pictured here:⁠⁠ 1. "Self-portrait, Larkspur," 1961.⁠⁠ 2. Wallace Berman, "Untitled," 1961–62, Verifax collage.⁠⁠ 3. Wallace Berman’s 'Semina,' a journal of poems and artworks published in nine issues from 1955 to 1964, featuring work by John Altoon, Toni Basil, Charles Britten, Cameron, Bruce and Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, Diane DiPrima, Robert Duncan, Llyn Foulkes, Ralph Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, Walter Hopps, Dennis Hopper, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Taylor Mead, Henry Miller, Jack Smith and many others.⁠⁠ 4. 'Semina 1,' 1955, Los Angeles, 150 copies. Cover is a photo of Cameron by Berman. Drawing is "Untiitled (peyote vision)" by Cameron.⁠⁠ 5. 'Semina 4,' 1959, San Francisco. Cover: "Wife" by Wallace Berman (photo of Shirley Berman). Poem is Stuart Perkoff's “Boplicity."⁠⁠ 6. Wallace Berman, "Untitled," 1971–72, Verifax collage.⁠⁠ 7. Berman family with "Panel" assemblage, 707 Scott⁠⁠ Street, San Francisco, 1959. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #wallaceberman @imtoshberman #semina @sfgpersonal @michaelnduncan #bornotd⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcRNDDpHEE/?igshid=1vk3c6hjnvss1

[art-now-japan]

Boplicity., Jim Harris

Acrylic on canvas 13" x 20.75" 2014

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Boplicity/292357/1983324/view

[jazztidbits]

Miles Davis - Boplicity

Miles Davis – trumpet

J. J. Johnson – trombone

Sandy Siegelstein – French horn

Bill Barber – tuba

Lee Konitz – alto saxophone

Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone

John Lewis – piano

Nelson Boyd – bass

Kenny Clarke – drums