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Birth Of The Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
February 5, 2001, Free Press
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0684813548 9780684813547
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"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.""
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