by MILES DAVIS
Release Date: 22 May 2026
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Blue Note
£32.99
Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool (Tone Poet Edition) Limited VDeluxe Gatefold 180gram Vinyl LP
Overview:
Miles Davis' earliest masterpiece 'Birth Of The Cool' gets the royal treatment in celebration of the legendary trumpeter's Centennial. Following his trial-by-fire tenure in the Charlie Parker Quintet in the mid-1940s, Davis emerged with bolstered confidence and a creative hunger to explore new directions. A regular gathering of like-minded musicians at arranger Gil Evans' Manhattan apartment provided the workshop at which the Miles Davis Nonet was born, and in 1949-50 Davis led three seminal sessions for Capitol Records that documented this exciting new music with a cast of collaborators including Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, John Lewis, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, and others. The nonet featured a unique instrumentation with French horn and tuba to create new textures influenced by impressionist classical music that inspired lyrical improvisations by the band's soloists on arrangements of pieces by Davis, Evans, Mulligan, Lewis, Denzil Best, Bud Powell, Johnny Mercer, and more. This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) from the original analog phono reel master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos.
Featured Tracks:
1. Move
2. Jeru
3. Moon Dreams
4. Venus De Milo
5. Budo
6. Deception
7. Godchild
8. Boplicity
9. Rocker
10. Israel
11. Rouge
Release Date: 18 April 2026
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: RSD
£16.99
Release Date: 20 March 2026
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Music On Vinyl
£24.99
Release Date: 13 March 2026
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Craft Recordings
£26.99
Release Date: 30 January 2026
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Sony Music Classical
£169.99
