Commentary of Luiz Orlando Carneiro - jan, 25

The creation of `cool jazz' In day 21 of January of 1949, the young Miles Davis - to the one front noneto (with tube and tuba) where if detached Lee Konitz (sax high), Gerry Mulligan (sax baritone voice), Kai Winding (trombone) and Max Roach (battery) - recorded Moves (Denzil Best), Budo (Bud Powell), Jeru (Gerry Mulligan) and Godchild (George Wallington). The arrangements - of sophisticated harmonic, full texture of half tones and soft dissonances, on the basis of one swing fluent, but without the ecstasies of bebop gillespiano - were, respectively, of John Lewis, Miles and Mulligan (the two last ones).
These bands had been launched in records of 78 then RPM, limited little more than the three minutes of duration. This historical session would be celebrates as The birth of the cool (the birth of cool jazz), in 1957, when the Capitol edited the intitled LP thus, adding the registers of noneto of two posterior sessions (with J.J. Johnson in the place of Winding): Venus de Milo and Rocker (Mulligan); Boplicity and Moon dreams (Gil Evans); Deception (Davis); Rouge (Lewis); Israel (John Carisi).
The date not only deserves to be remembered by being had as " certificate of born" in the way cool to touch jazz. It is clearly that the style was not invented, suddenly, for the young Miles Davis, when forming the Tuba nonet, that it was presented for the first time in New York, in the Royal Roost, 1948. The trompetist age, until then, a unsafe and envious accessory of Charlie Parker - what it leaves well clearly in its Autobiografia (1989).
It is also well-known fact that, for 1946 return, the band of Claude Thornhill - that she counted on tuba (John Barber) and tube (Júnior Collins), beyond metals and vanes of custom - produced one swing dançante, purl side to the vibrato. The main arranjador of the orchestra - of which they were Konitz part, Mulligan, Barber and Collins - was Gil Evans (1912-1989). As it wrote down Anger Gitler, in Swing you bop (1985), " it was of the orchestra of Thornhill that emerged the celebrity noneto of Miles Davis" , that it was congregated and it assayed in the apartment of Evans.
The known sessions as "The Birth of the Cool" must be discovered by the review neophytes and for whom they know already them, mainly, for the following reasons: the intrinsic and perennial beauty of the music conceived for the arrangers, halting for short ground nicely integrated in the context (especially of Konitz and Mulligan, both then with 21 years); the beginning of the release of Davis of the shade of the double invincible Parker-Gillespie and, consequently, of the search of that phrasing sound and that had illuminated the planet jazz in the two following decades; the origins of aesthetic cool developed, then later, for quartet Mulligan-Chet Baker and the branch West Coast in a general way, for the Modern Quartet Jazz de John Lewis and for Lee Konitz - active, still creative, "ageless" , a history to the part in the history of the jazz.
The COMPACT DISC I contend the sessions of the Capitol (January and April of 1949; March of 1950) was reedited by the Blue Note, in 2001, remasterizado for Rudy Van Gelder. Recently (2005), the saxofonista Joe Lovano recorded for the same label (connected to its complex Streams workmanship of expression) the birth of the Cool Suite, written for Gunther Schuller, on the basis of the original arrangements of Moon Dreams, Move and Boplicity. The venerable composer, today with 83 years, was the trompista of noneto of Miles Davis in the session of March of 1950. It and Konitz are the only survivors of those inesquecíveis years.
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