An edition of Birth of the Cool (2001)

Birth Of The Cool

Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde

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An edition of Birth of the Cool (2001)

Birth Of The Cool

Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde

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Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Pages
288

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Subjects
Bop (Music), History and criticism, Avant-garde (Aesthetics), History, Jazz, history and criticism, Beats (persons)

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Cover of: Birth of the Cool
Birth of the Cool
March 4, 2002, Scribner
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Cover of: Birth Of The Cool
Birth Of The Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
February 5, 2001, Free Press
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Book Details

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.""

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Library of Congress
ML3508.M23 2001, ML 3508 M23 2001, ML3508 .M23 2001

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Weight
1.8 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7721083M
ISBN 10
0684813548
ISBN 13
9780684813547
LCCN
00048253
OCLC/WorldCat
45080102
Library Thing
134575
Goodreads
278156

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